Ann: Nevrona News incl Rave 5.1.3 BEX
Glenn Crouch
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* Rave Reports 5.1.3 BEX Released. Upgrade today!
* Rave Reports for .NET - Delphi 8 for .NET and beyond
* Rave Newsletter Tips and Tricks
* Enhance your Rave with hot stuff for cool reports!
Note: The Rave included with Delphi 7 is "BE" and is currently at v5.0.8
- "BEX" is the commercial version :)
Rave Reports 5.1.3 BEX Released. Upgrade today!
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We're happy to announce the immediate availability of Rave Reports 5.1.3
BEX (Borland Edition eXtended). Just some of the recent enhancements
that have been made to Rave since the original 5.0 release are:
* New Data Viewer to allow the viewing of a DataView's data from within
the Rave report designer
* New band component expert that allows for easier creation of header,
footer and detail bands
* New language options for French, German and Japanese help files and
Rave report designer interfaces.
* New scripting demo project and documentation
* New code based printing support within scripting - Now you can merge
code based and visual reports!
* New Visible property scripting support and ability to delete scripting
events
* New MBCS support (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) for the PDF render.
* Enhanced DataLink system: Better error reporting, "Test Connection"
buttons and ADO timeout parameters.
* New Interbase Express DataLink driver
If you currently own Rave 5.0 BEX, the upgrade to Rave 5.1.3 BEX is free
and available for download from the registered users download page.
If you would like to upgrade from a previous version of Rave (or Rave
BE) to the latest and greatest please visit the online order page for
special upgrade pricing:
<https://secure.nevrona.com/order/index.html>
For more information on Rave Reports 5 please visit
<http://www.nevrona.com/rave/features.html>
or contact our sales staff at:
Rave Reports for .NET - Delphi 8 for .NET and beyond
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Borland once again included Nevrona's Rave Reports with their latest
release of Delphi, version 8 for .NET. This is Nevrona Designs' first
.NET release and is based on the Borland VCL.NET class libraries for
maximum backwards compatibility with Delphi for Win32 projects. The
Nevrona developers, however, are hard at work completing another .NET
port of Rave that is based on Microsoft's Framework class libraries
(FCL) for the ultimate in .NET reporting.
What about Delphi for Win32? No need to worry, Nevrona developers are
also hard at work on Rave Reports 6.0 for the Win32 platform. More
information on these future versions of Rave will be made available in
the near future through the Nevrona Designs announcement lists and the
Nevrona Designs website.
Rave Newsletter Tips and Tricks
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Code based Reporting Tip:
The TBaseReport.SelectPrinter method takes a printer name as it's only
parameter to select an available printer on the users system. However,
if the exact name of the printer is not found, Rave then looks for a
printer name that contains the provided name. This would allow you to
call SelectPrinter with only a partial name such as 'Fax' or 'Laser' to
work on a wider variety of system configurations.
Visual Reporting Tip:
When you drop a new band or databand in a region component, it always
goes to the bottom of the list of bands. You can change the position
that a band appears in a region by first selecting it and then use the
Move Forward (moves down) and Move Behind (moves up) buttons on the
Alignment toolbar. For even greater simplicity, you can right click on
a databand and select "Create" to create header and footer bands that
will already show up in the correct location in the region with the
ControllerBand and BandStyles properties set to the correct values.
Enhance your Rave with hot stuff for cool reports!
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If you haven't checked out the add-ons page for Rave recently you should
certainly do so now.
<http://www.nevrona.com/rave/addons.shtml>
Some of the more recent additions for Rave 5.x include:
* Links to several excellent tutorial articles on Rave - First Step for
Rave with Delphi and Introduction to Rave Part I & II
* TRvBoldConnection component to use Rave and Bold together
* EAN8 barcode component
* SoftSand Fax Render - This native VCL component, will allow you to FAX
any Rave visual or code based report through the Windows NT/2000/XP
faxing platform. Simply drop the component onto your report form, set
the component properties, adjust Rave's "report destination" property,
and your ready to go!
* wPDF Render - Supports strong encryption, compression and embedded
metafiles will be exported as vectors and text to minimize the size of
the PDF file while preserving all information for quality print out.
* WPCubed GmbH Free Renders - Free graphics rendering class that will
create EMF, JPEG and BMP files.
* AddictTools for RAVE - Uses the Addict Spell Check & Thesaurus Engine
to supply Live Spelling, Dialog-based Spelling Check & Thesaurus Lookup
for Text based entries in Rave Reports.
* Gnostice RaveRender - A highly enhanced rendering add-on that can save
your Rave reports to PDF, HTML, RTF, Excel, Text, JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF
and WMF. You get more than just Save Report: End-user Dialogs (to
configure the export), Watermarking facilities, E-Mailing (of saved
reports), Web Reporting facilities and lots more.
* ESBTools for Rave v1.02 - Supplies the following: Calculator Property
Editor (scientific calculator with memory), Colored Number DataText
Component (Set Different Color of Values that are Positive and Negative;
Allow Blank when "Zero"; Change the "Zero" position via the property
CutOff; Change the Tolerance used).
* ESBRaveViewer - Displays NDR files produced by Rave. Saves the Report
in the following formats: PDF, HTML, RTF, Excel, Text and selected
Graphic types.
* Rave Overview Presentation from ADUG 2003 Symposium - This
presentation contains many useful examples and tutorials for Rave.
* Advantage, Oracle and Interbase DataLink drivers
Thanks for your support!
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Jon E. Scott
reports in 98% of my projects, since I'm more comfortable with it. Been
using Report Printer Pro since v2.
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Thanks,
Jon E. Scott
Blue Orb Software
http://www.blueorbsoft.com
"Glenn Crouch" <gl...@esbconsult.com> wrote in message
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Glenn Crouch
NOSPAM...@blueorbsoft.comNOSPAM says...
> Any updates to the code-based reporting from 5.1.2? I use code-based
> reports in 98% of my projects, since I'm more comfortable with it. Been
> using Report Printer Pro since v2.
I am in the same boat - though am starting to do more work with the
visual side of things :)
Not a great lot of changes from v5.1.2 for code users - a few minor bugs
fixes.
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Glenn Crouch mailto:gl...@esbconsult.com
ESB Consultancy http://www.esbconsult.com
Home to ESB Calculators, ESBPCS, ESBStats and ESBPDF
Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia
Jon E. Scott
in the code-based reports via email? I have a heavily modified 5.1.2 for
custom purposes and don't want to apply the update and overwrite my changes.
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Thanks,
Jon E. Scott
Blue Orb Software
http://www.blueorbsoft.com
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