Paper forms reporting question

[JD]

@GetMem

Thanks for your efforts. However I'm having trouble running the report. When I click the "Show Report" button, nothing happens and when I click the "Export to PDF" button, it gives the error message in the dialog shown in the attachment & a Test.pdf file is created with a size of zero!

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Did you successfully installed those 3 components? If you double click the frReport component the report designer opens?

[JD]

Did you successfully installed those 3 components? If you double click the frReport component the report designer opens?

Yes. The components are already part of my Lazarus installation. Currently I have

lazreport 0.9.9
lazreportpdfexport 0.8
pack_powerpdf 0.9.12

When I double click the frReport component, the report designer opens but the page is blank.

JD

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@JD
Unfortunately I have no idea why it's not opening at your side. It should look like this(screenshot). I also uploaded an executable, perhaps you can run it in a VM, so at least we know if the idea is good: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Me_c5onmWoY1l0eUJlXy10Tmc/view?usp=sharing

Can somebody else test the project? You need to install 3 packages. Basically 2 since lazreport is installed by default:$(LazarusDir)\components\lazreport\source\lazreport.lpk

[JD]

@GetMem

Your executable worked perfectly. I just don't know why my installed LazReport doesn't display the form in the IDE.

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@JD
Your executable worked perfectly. I just don't know why my installed LazReport doesn't display the form in the IDE.

What is the exact environment you're working with? I see in the description windows, linux, etc. Perhaps I can reproduce the error if I now where to test.
My environment: Win7(64 bit), Lazarus Trunk/FPC 3.0.0

[balazsszekely]

Surprise JD! Somebody ported your application to fortesreport . Now I really hope this works:
1. Install Fortes4Lazarus. The one from Online Package Manager works well with Lazarus Trunk/1.6. More over works on every major platform(win32/64, qt, carbon, qtk2)
2. Test project(attachment)

PS: The exported pdf should be in the same directory as your project(TestPdf.pdf)

[JD]

Surprise JD! Somebody ported your application to fortesreport . Now I really hope this works:
1. Install Fortes4Lazarus. The one from Online Package Manager works well with Lazarus Trunk/1.6. More over works on every major platform(win32/64, qt, carbon, qtk2)
2. Test project(attachment)

PS: The exported pdf should be in the same directory as your project(TestPdf.pdf)

Well that's great news because Fortes is what I use. I would have liked to thank that person myself. Even before I saw this, I had already started to port your example to FortesReport.

Thanks again,

JD

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I would have liked to thank that person myself.

You already did.