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ANN: ReportBuilder 9.02 is now available for Delphi 2005, Delphi 7, and Delphi 6!2005-03-18 07:29:48 AM delphi215 Digital Metaphors Corporation announces the release of ReportBuilder 9.02! ReportBuilder 9.02 includes VCL Win32 support for Delphi 2005, Delphi 7, and Delphi 6. Pricing: www.digital-metaphors.com/Subpages/Order/Overview.html New Feature Matrix: www.digital-metaphors.com/PDF/Matrix.pdf Upgrade now!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enhancements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 9.02 - 03/17/2005 ------------ 1. TeeChart - Added TeeChart 7.04 support for Delphi 2005, Delphi 7 2. AutoSearch - Added InList and Between operator support for searching on string values that contain a comma 3. DADE - Added support for PostgreSQL database type Version 9.01 - 12/14/2004 ------------ 1. File Devices - Added streaming support so that PDF and other formats can be generated directly to an output Stream that is assigned to the FileDevice. 2. Demos - Added two PDF examples to the main reports demo (..\RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr) 3. Online Help - Added topics TppPDFDevice and TppPDFSettings Version 9.0 - 11/19/2004 ------------ Designer Enhancements --------------------- . new Object Inspector . new Undo/Redo support . new Workspace grid and snap-to-grid support . new Toolbar/ToolWindow architecture Report Component Library (RCL) Enhancements ------------------------------------------- . new Rotated Text support, added Angle property for text controls . new Border property for all controls . new Anchor property enables control to reposition itself when the layout changes. . new PageBreak component for advanced control over pagination . enhanced RichText MailMerge to support display formats & multiple datapipelines . enhanced DBImage to support AutoSize . enhanced RCL architecture supports registering popup menu and design controls . new Report level events that enable parameter initialization and SQL modification. Report Output Enhancements -------------------------- . new PDF export Data Access Enhancements ------------------------ . new Guid Field Type support . new Guid Field Type data linking support Report Engine Enhancements ---------------------------- . improved support for calculations performed in page footer . improved support for detecting layouts which result in infinite page generation. DADE Enhancements* ------------------ . new Support for Guid Field Type Linking . new SQLBuilder object for runtime sql manipulation RAP Enhancements** ------------------ . new Report level events that enable parameter initialization and SQL modification. . new SQLBuilder class to dynamically modify sql EndUser Guide Enhancements** ---------------------------- . new Learning to RAP Guide * These features in ReportBuilder Professional and Enterprise only. ** These features in ReportBuilder Enterprise only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixes for Version 9.02 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Designer - When Component.ParentHeight is True, the Band cannot be dragged upward. - Nudge or Ctrl+arrow keys did not work correctly when region plus contents selected. - Show/Hide floating tool windows when application is activated/deactivated. - LineThickness palette not being updated to reflect selected line. - For DBText and DBCalc, the DisplayFormat dialog was not being initialized with the current DisplayFormat value. - DBCalc, the Calculations dialoge was not being initialized with the current ResetGroup value. - Fixed issue when the page orientation or column count was adjusted, objects with a right anchor were still being deleted. - Fix for stay on top behavior of floating tool windows. - Fixed some memory leaks. - Fixed undo support for RichText assignment. 2. PDFDevice - Accented characters such as the german "? character, were not exported correctly. - Dynamically loaded images in a two pass report were not exporting correctly. - An exception was thrown when exporting center or right aligned wrapped text. - Exporting overlapping shapes (forming a grid) with pen.style set to psClear was leaving a visible line in the PDF file. - An AV occured for the case in which no valid printer is installed. - The CheckBox component was not exporting correctly. - Fixed issue in which the demo versions of RB threw an exception. - Added support for custom drawcommands to be exported as an image. 3. Engine - Fix for case in which PageBreak.Visible is toggled while report is generating. - Fixed case in which pbFixed and TraverseAllData are true and the subreport overflows. The subreport was printing at the incorrect top position on overflowing pages. - An exception was thrown if crosstab is calculating and user switches to data tab. - When Band.Visible is False, the engine incorrectly raised an exception to prevent infinite pages. - Some customers experiences issues related to RichText generation, primarily with Win9x. - Fixes issue where an exception was thrown when mail merging and a null record was encountered. - The PageStyle.PageList was not processed correctly. - Fixed some Av's that occured when no printer is installed. 4. Viewer - Updated the text search feature in RB so that it will search through rotated text correctly. ---->Professional <---------- 5. EndUser Designer - Using TppDesigner as an MDI form can result in an error "a component named ReportOutline already exists". - Fixed AV that occurs with Designer is compiled with the Delphi compiler option for Stack Frames. - Fix for MDI Designer case in which DataTree is not docked. 6. Dade - Enhanced AutoSearch to support case in which a field appears twice in the select list and is used to create two criteria. - Dade Date criteria can encounter an issue when reports run from various regional settings. ---->Enterprise <---------- 7. RAP - Updated RAP RTTI for the TStringList class to support TStringList.Duplicates, TStringList.CaseSensitive props. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixes for Version 9.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Designer - Some users experienced stack faults and slow performance - Undo support when a Region and its contents are selected 2. PDFDevice - Fixed issues related to regional settings that use a ',' as the decimal separator - Fixed issue related to handling wmf images 3. Engine - Fixed case for reports have an invisible detail band. The new logic that checks for infinite page generation conditions, erroneously raised an exception. ---->Professional <---------- 4. EndUser Designer - Using the TppDesigner.ShowComponents feature resulted in an AV 5. ReportExplorer - When empty and the Save dialog can encounter a list index out of bounds error when saving the first item. - when an empty folder is selected the enable item options logic did not fire. This could result in items not being enabled and disabled properly. 6. TdaSQL - Searching on the string 'Select ' was mistaken for a sub-select statement. ---->Enterprise <---------- 5. RAP - OnPageRequest RTTI was not defined -- Regards, Digital Metaphors www.digital-metaphors.com |