Reports for WinForms - Recent Threads

Re: Some questions on C1PreviewPane ?

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:19:18 GMT

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, sorry - could you explain your question in more detail? (Alternatively, you may send me a private message in Russian if that is easier.) Thanks.

Re: Cutoff text in a rendertable column

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:12:10 GMT

Use RenderTable.Style.WordWrap rather than RenderTable.CellStyle.WordWrap. CellStyle is an ambient property, so it propagates via objects (rather than styles) hierarchy (see help for more on this). In short, this:

RenderTable rt = new RenderTable();

...

rt.Style.WordWrap = false;

Should work. Hope this helps.

Re: headings with multiple columns in report

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:05:53 GMT

You cannot use page columns for this but you should be able to create such a layout using a RenderTable. In your example, you would create a RenderTable with two columns and 10 rows, set SpanCols to 2 on cells (0,0) and (6,0), put your headings in those cells and "items" in other cells. Because RenderTable's can be nested, there are no limitations on the types of those items. Does this make sense/help?

Re: Multi-Language support in C1Report

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:01:21 GMT

Are you using C1Report or C1PrintDocument component (both live in C1Report assembly)?

Re: Localize C1PrintDocument Via Code

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:56:29 GMT

To localize zoom drop down menu items:

foreach (ToolStripItem item in this.c1PrintPreviewControl1.ToolBars.Zoom.DropZoomFactor.DropDownItems)
{
if (item.Text == C1.Win.C1Preview.Strings.ToolsIntegrator.ZoomItemActualSize)
item.Text = "my actual size";
else if (item.Text == C1.Win.C1Preview.Strings.ToolsIntegrator.ZoomItemPageWidth)
item.Text = "my page width";
else if (item.Text == C1.Win.C1Preview.Strings.ToolsIntegrator.ZoomItemTextWidth)
item.Text = "my text width";
else if (item.Text == C1.Win.C1Preview.Strings.ToolsIntegrator.ZoomItemWholePage)
item.Text = "my whole page";
}

To localize context menu items:

1) Assign a handler to C1PrintPreviewControl1.PreviewPane.ContextMenuStrip.ItemAdded:

this.c1PrintPreviewControl1.PreviewPane.ContextMenuStrip.ItemAdded += new ToolStripItemEventHandler(ContextMenuStrip_ItemAdded);

2) In that handler, localize strings e.g. as follows:

static Dictionary<object, string> s_myContextMenuStrings = new Dictionary<object, string>()
{
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.Copy, "my copy"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.DeselectAll, "my deselect all"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.Find, "my find"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.HandTool, "my hand tool"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.Print, "my print"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.SelectAll, "my select all"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.SelectTool, "my select tool"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.ZoomIn, "my zoom in"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.ZoomOut, "my zoom out"},
{ C1.Win.C1Preview.ContextMenuTags.ZoomTool, "my zoom tool"},
};

...

void ContextMenuStrip_ItemAdded(object sender, ToolStripItemEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Item.Tag != null && s_myContextMenuStrings.ContainsKey(e.Item.Tag))
e.Item.Text = s_myContextMenuStrings[e.Item.Tag];
}

Re: For Next Loops

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:21:16 GMT

Yes. But, of course, you must make sure that the syntax of your script is valid.

E.g. the following C# will assign "5" to the MyField field's text:

rep.Sections[SectionTypeEnum.Detail].OnFormat = "for I = 1 to 5 \r\nMyField.Text = I.ToString()\r\n next I";

Re: Increase Size of Print Preview Toolbar?

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:05:44 GMT

Toolbars are ToolStrip objects that can be accessed via C1PrintPreviewControl.ToolBars.<toolbar>.ToolStrip where <toolbar> is one of File, Navigation, Page, Text or Zoom. For instance the following code could be used:

public Form1()

{

InitializeComponent();

ResizeToolStrip(this.c1PrintPreviewControl1.ToolBars.File.ToolStrip);

ResizeToolStrip(this.c1PrintPreviewControl1.ToolBars.Navigation.ToolStrip);

ResizeToolStrip(this.c1PrintPreviewControl1.ToolBars.Page.ToolStrip);

ResizeToolStrip(this.c1PrintPreviewControl1.ToolBars.Text.ToolStrip);

ResizeToolStrip(this.c1PrintPreviewControl1.ToolBars.Zoom.ToolStrip);

}

private void ResizeToolStrip(ToolStrip ts)

{

ts.AutoSize = false;

ts.ImageScalingSize = new Size(64, 64);

ts.AutoSize = true;

}

Hope this helps.

Re: Change image field

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:49:38 GMT

(Just to clarify, in the above code, "image" is the Name of the field where I want to put the picture. Adjust as needed.)

Re: Change image field

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:48:37 GMT

Attach a handler to the StartSection event of the report. In that handler, assign the image to the Picture property of the desired field, e.g.:

void rep_StartSection(object sender, ReportEventArgs e)

{

C1Report rep = (C1Report)sender;

if (e.Section == SectionTypeEnum.Detail)

rep.Sections[SectionTypeEnum.Detail].Fields["image"].Picture = myPic;

}

Re: Upgrade to later version: C1Report.Load takes much longer

C1_Dima — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:49:20 GMT

Tried to answer this but somehow don't see my reply. To repeat, we did fix a bug that improved loading of reports with multiple subreports some time ago. Maybe in your case, some other issue is at work. Could you please post your report definition (or email it to me) so that we could look into the problem? Thanks.

Re: Upgrade to later version: C1Report.Load takes much longer

eppinkf — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:23:02 GMT

I just checked the C1Report.dll in 2010 V2 and realized that the bug still exists.

I have one (complicated) report definition file which takes 35 seconds just to load, rendering not included!

Is it planned to fix this problem at all?

Some questions on C1PreviewPane ?

Igor Jukov — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:55:01 GMT

1. Whether it is possible to share C1PreviewPane and C1Toolbar ?

2. I can not find event generating transition on pages C1PreviewPane ? In old version VSPrinter event was called AfterUserPage

Use of the standard control panel in ToolStrip not absolutely approaches

Excuse for my English

Yours faithfully Igor Jukov

Re: Cutoff text in a rendertable column

C1_SuelindaW — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:47:13 GMT

Hi,

Are you using '\n' or 'vbCrLf' within the the strings displayed in the "Insured name" column? If so, the line break will render regardless of the setting of the WrapText property as of build 2.0.20102.61183/4.0.20102.61183. For a while, between this build and 2.0.20093.61169, the hard returns would be ignored.

-SuelindaW

headings with multiple columns in report

HMaster — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:22:22 GMT

We are using the C1PrintPreview control and creating reports in code.

We would like to create a report with this style of page layout:

-----------------------------------------

My Section Heading accross the page

Item 1                           Item 6
Item 2                           Item 7
Item 3                           Item 8
Item 4                           Item 9
Item 5                           Item 10

My Second section heading

Item A                           Item D
Item B                           Item E
Item C                           Item F

-----------------------------------------

That is, using the columns option create sections whereby the data (probably a RenderTable) is rendered into columns, but with a heading that is not also "squashed" into the columns too.

Is such a layout possible, and if so, how?

Thank you.
Nick.

Cutoff text in a rendertable column

ramesh_agro — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:49:52 GMT

Hi,

Environment : VB.Net 2008, Windows application

I am loading data from grid to RenderTable object and display report using C1PrintDocument.RenderDirect method.

Note: User can able to resize the columns in the grid.

When prints the report, the data in the grid is loaded into rendertable object along with each column styles. the issue is when the column width is less than the column text, then the extra text need to be cutoff. i tried with setting cellstyle.wordwrap=false property but its not working.

attached is the image (increased the size for easy visibility of the issue)

Any idea?

Multi-Language support in C1Report

dalewill — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:32:36 GMT

Everyone:

I need to recreate on Canadian government customs forms that have all fields headings in both english and french-canadian. Is it possible to support 2 languages on a c1report? If it is possible are there any examples on how to do it.

Sincerely,

Dale

Re: Localize C1PrintDocument Via Code

Wolfgang Knauf — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:15:39 GMT

Hi,

sorry, I don't know how to localize the C1 controls "in code", so you know more than me ;-).

Best regards

Wolfgang

Re: C1ReportViewer not loading new reports

infotacto — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:46:43 GMT

Sorry Dima yes Im using C1WebReport and C1Report to generate the report. Thanks

Re: C1ReportViewer not loading new reports

C1_Dima — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:42:27 GMT

I just answered your two other messages and now I see that you're using C1ReportViewer - NOT C1WebReport. While both are based on the same C1Report engine, those are DIFFERENT products, with different properties etc. So you may ignore my answers there. Those threads were about C1WebReport, so if you have any issues with C1ReportViewer - please state them here, and I will try to help.

Re Silverlight - yes, we are planning to do a Silverlight viewer in a future version.

Re: Web Report Cache clear problem..

C1_Dima — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:35:16 GMT

Answered in another thread.

Re: C1ReportViewer not loading new reports

infotacto — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:29:57 GMT

Thanks Dima, i create some other post about the cache stuff, I just tried what you said here about the reportname property and then it works. Thanks, and let you know if i found any other rare stuff. Btw Dima, do you know if there is any Silverlight Report Preview that C1 is going to deliver in a future version? Thanks

Re: Web Report Cache clear problem..

infotacto — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:58:10 GMT

Hi, im using the c1.webreport 4.0 and the C1WebReport control doesnt have a Report Property, so what im doing is to set the c1.report tag to DateTime.Now and its not working.

Also the 4.0 control doesnt have a Cache.Clear() method so the cache things is really a mess. If i set the cache.enabled = false then the reports doesnt work...

Please a help with cache thing in c1webreprot 4.0 or 3.0. Thanks

Re: Localize C1PrintDocument Via Code

TheGMan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:27:22 GMT

Wolfgang,

Could you please tell me what part of the C1PrintPreviewControl has the "ToolsIntegrator.ZoomItemActualSize" property? I have tried everything I can think of to find that and the context menus. For example, how do you localize the context menus in the preview pane?

I'd really rather localize the strings myself. I'm trying to keep all of the application strings in a single file. Using the C1 localization tool creates a second string file to manage. At this point, I'm so close to having everything localized I'd rather not try to switch back.

Thank you.

Re: Localize C1PrintDocument Via Code

Wolfgang Knauf — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:16:06 GMT

Hi,

I think you can use the C1 localization tool anyway. Create localizations for all required languages, and then set your desired language in application startup:

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo ("de-de");

This should pick the correct one.

The "missing" resource strings ("ToolsIntegrator.ZoomItemActualSize", ...) can be found by localizing e.g. a "C1PrintPreviewControl" control.

Hope this helps

Wolfgang

For Next Loops

PatD — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:19:35 GMT

Do the scripts in the report designer support for/next loops?