Bill and others,
I put together a DLL from earlier code I had leaving out the "heavy stuff"
MB-RTF.DLL
Use a RTF [Rich Text Format] file created with the included editor or WordPad, NOTE---Word and WordPerfect create munged rtf standard files.
Just 5 simple functions rtfOpen, rtfReplace, rtfSave, rtfPrint, ftfClose [actully open is a function the others are sub's]
Open the file [template] Do a Search/Replace Print or Save [RENAME THE FILE] Close the file
Written in Delphi6 and includes source, MB example and text manual [cheap crappy techie style]
Unzip to a folder in your project and include the DLL in your distribution. Please RTFM.
In the example mb source besure to change the file path.
download it here http://www.wap3.com/download/mb-rtf.zip
--Trey Pattillo
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Bill Thoen wrote:
I've got to modify an MBX application to print a page of legal fineprint following the output of one to many maps. The maps are easy, but how do you produce a neatly-formatted page of text? This page has about 1000 words of boilerplate text and I've got to add some run-time generated summary text as well.
The output goes directly to the printer on the client machines, and I can't assume they have MS Word, Adobe PDF, or even a web browser.
The only thing I can think of is to paste the boilerplate text into a layout window, line by line (because strings can't be longer than 255 chars), and then save it as a workspace. At run time, I could then open this layout, drop in my additional text at the top of the page, and print the page. But the prospect of manually laying out the fixed text seems a bit daunting.
Does anyone know if there is a better way, or a tool that can move a Word document into a frame that could be dropped on a layout?
- Bill Thoen
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