Beiträge von ADV

Hmm, didn't work: "ghost" images (doubled texts) were displayed.
So, first I used WP.Memo.PaintRTFPage instead, but no change.

Now, I set some more PaintMode flags, and now it seems to be ok.
The paintMode flags I used are:
wppShowMargins
wppNoImages
wppNoTextAtAll
wppNoParShading
wppNoParLines
wppNoHeaderFooter
wppNoWatermarks
wppNoPageBackground

Is this ok, or should I use any other PaintMode flags?
Is it generally ok to use this method to display the margins?

And again:
Nevertheless, the "official" feature-wish from my proevious posting remains ;-)

Regards,
E. Hess

Ah, WaterM3 demo.

WPLetterhead.PaintPageOnCanvas(0,
0, 0, 0, 0, toCanvas, [wppShowMargins],
XRes, YRes, -1, -1, [wpNoViewPortAPI]);

Is it ok to use function PaintPageOnCanvas (with wppShowMargins)?

Nevertheless, the feature-wish from my proevious posting remains ;-)

Regards,
E. Hess

Thank you, but I don't get it. Do you have a Demo for me?
There are several problems which I cannot solve:
- reflect the size and the margins of the current page
- actual zoom mode
- In preview window (text not editable) , I should not see this margins.

I saw in the sources, that TWPPaintModes has the flag wppShowMargins.
Why don't you simply made it a public flag, which can be set at TWPRichtText? Sure, we would need some more Flags for the Preview window, and and which LayoutMode to show the margins.
Wouldn't this be a nice enhancement for the next version?

Thank you in advance,
E. Hess

I got the message to disappear by:

- converting (with BCB5's convert.exe) WpParBrd.dfm to text format
(why are the DFMs not in text format by default?)
- In the DFM, at cbxShading, I removed the property "ItemIndex = 0"
- recompiling WPTools

Then the border dialog opens without error message.
Unfortunately cbxShading now initially has nothing selected, because - I guess - ItemIndex now is -1.

I don't know why this works now - may be a problem between
Delphi and BCB (5). Does anybody have the answer?

Kind regards,
E. Hess

Hello!

In Full Layout Mode, how can I activate margin display,
I mean the margins as dotted lines like in Word.
I didn't find a property for this at TWPRichText.
I also didn't find an event or anything else where I could do this.

Thanx in advance,
E. Hess

Hello!

Still migrating (to WPTools 5, BCB5)...

When opening the Par. Border Dialog with ParagraphBorderDlg->Execute()
an error message appears at runtime:
"Error reading cbxShading->ItemIndex: Property does not exist".
What could happen here?

Kind regards,
E. Hess

Ok, may be your answer in a previous post is it: using SuperMerge.Stack.

Some questions:
Does SuperMerge's Stack always point to the beginning of the band stack.
TWPTextCombineStack members:
What's the difference between Band and CurrentBand?
Is CurrentGroup the group, which CurrentBand belongs to?

Most of TWPSuperMerge's events offer the Band as parameter.
Within such an event, is this Band the same as the Stack's CurrentBand?
The Stack's CurrentBand is the actual band in all SuperMerge events?

BTW: I need TWPSuperMerge's AfterProcessPage event, which does not more exist in WPTools 5.

Thanx,
E. Hess

In SuperMerge's PrepareHeader event, for a certain reason I have to check the Band's property ParentGroup to determine, whether the header is a page header or whether it's a group header. Since ParentGroup does not more exists in WPTools 5, how can I find it out now?
Same question concerning footers.

Kind regards,
E. Hess

I have the following peace of WPTools 4 code (BCB 5):

At the end of (may be it's better to do this before?) a SuperMerge generation I optionally set a new paper size (from the printer):

if (UsePaperFromPrinter) {
WP->PaperDefs->Init( true );
WP->ReadPaperSizeFromPrinter();
WP->ReformatAll( false, false );
}

ReadPaperSizeFromPrinter() doesn't exist anymore. How to get the same functionality with WpTools 5?

ReformatAll got two parameters. To get the same functionality as in WPTools 4, how to set them : false/false or false/true or... ?

Should I always call WP->Invalidate() at the end?
Do I have to call it, even if the second parameter (RepaintMemo) of ReformatAll is true?

Thank you in advance,
E. Hess

In my application using WPTools 4, I can append multiple via SuperMerge generated reports to a single destination with optional different header and footer handling.
For this, I change SuperMerge's properties FooterOptions and HeaderOptions.

Now, WPPTools 5 does not more offer these properties.
What's the way in WPTools 5?

Thank you in advance,
E. Hess

I added it to WPRTEReport.pas.
Will you 'officially' have it within TWPSuperMerge in the next version?

Thanx,
E. Hess

Thanx a lot.

Hello!

In WpTools 4 I used TWPInsertTextContents' members
C, Band, pMergeAttr, FloatValue, IntValue and BoolValue,
which are now missing in TWPMMInsertTextContents.

FloatValue, IntValue and BoolValue:
Why were they removed? Actually, I helped me converting them to a string and assigning it to StringValue.

C:
I guess, this is c now.

Band:
How can I find out, whether a band and what band is actually processed by MailMergeGetText?

pMergeAttr:
I guess, this is MergeAttr, but it has fundamentally changed. Can you please give me some hints where to look into the documentation to find
something about old TAttr and new TWPStoredCharAttrInterface?

Thank you,
E. Hess

Hello!

Could you please offer a possibility to access TWPSuperMerge's private members FSource and FDestination?
I'm just migrating and I don't yet know exactly, whether I will come around this. But I used these members in WPTools 4.

Thanx,
E. Hess

Hello!

When I'm within a table, how can I select this table completely?
In WPTols 4 I used SelectTable for this.

Does DeleteTable do the same as in WPTools 4?

Thanx,
E. Hess

Hello!

While SuperMerge is running, at the location of a special field
I want to dynamically create a table in SuperMerge's Destination-RichtText.
For this, I use the second example of the documentation.
In short - you remember:

AddTable()
CPMoveBack()
Loop:
TableRowNumber = r
TableColNumber = c;
InputString()

Now I have some problems/questions:

1. After having created the table, how can I place the cursor
to the line behind the table? I know, using SuperMerge, I could
set it to the end of the Destination-RichText (CPosition = MaxInt).
But I could also use my table creation procedure with a RichText,
that has text behind my table.

2. After having created the table with AddTable(), I fill it row by row.
The first 3 rows are headers, where with the very first I want
to "group" some headers. This means, when filling this header row
cell by cell from left to right, I check, whether the previous
header has the same name. In this case I want to combine these
cells. The 3rd and 4th... header may also be combined.
I tried various things with CombineCells() and SelectCells(),
but they didn't work (resutls were chaotic). Also I tried to
check my next header (not the previous) - helped not.
Unfortunately, the help file is very short in the description of
CombineCells() and SelectCells(). Also I wonder, why there is no
Function SelectCells( FromCol, FromRow, ToRow, ToCol ).
In the WordProcessor demo, selecting cells manually and then
combine them, works greatly.
But what do I have to do, to make this programatically. Perhaps
I have to place the cursor into the cells, then make the selection -
but how to do this?

3. Since the columns have certain widths, to avoid adding an invisible
dummy column, which gets the resting width, I read something about
setting the MarginRight of a table.
But how can I set the margin for a table, the already exists?

4. I have to choose an appropriate column width depending on the cells'
contents. How can I calculate the width of the text, before I
insert it via InputString()? Sure, this depends on the font, that
is used in a cell.
What could be the solution to my problem?

All people are welcome to give my tips.

Thanx in advance,
E. Hess