Units documentation

rpmetafile.pas

Description

This unit implements the driver abstraction layer for the reporting engine, defines a interface to print reports and a streamable metafile structure to store, proces, draw, set of pages containing graphic and text elements, it also defines the Report Metafile file format.

Types

Name Description
TRpOrientation

Enumeration (rpOrientationDefault,rpOrientationPortrait,rpOrientationLandscape)

Page orientation

TRpMetaObjectType

Enumeration (rpMetaText,rpMetaDraw,rpMetaImage)

Three graphic types rupported

TRpMetaSeparator

Enumeration (rpFHeader,rpFPage,rpFObject)

Separators for metafile file format

TRpMetaObject Packet record, used to store in memory information about graphic objects, also to stream pages (array of TRpMetaObject), it's a variant record, can contain any type of meta object
TRpTextObject Record used to pass text options to interface functions
TRpMetafileStreamProgres

procedure (Sender:TRpMetafileReport; Position,Size:int64; page:integer) of object;

Event for metafile streaming progress

Components and classes

Name Base class Description
ERpBadFileFormat Exception Exception with stream position information
TTotalPagesObject TObject Used to store total page variable print for the two pass report
IRpPrintDriver

IUnknown

Interface, defines the required functions to implement a Report Manager output driver
TRpMetafilePage TObject Defines a page object, each page has an array of TRpMetaObjects
TRpMetafileReport TComponent Report Metafile component, contains a collection of pages, the pages can be streamed, the TRpMetafileReport can be drawn to any IRpPrintDriver