Re: Multiple lines in one RVData.SetItemText(i, value)

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Jim Maguire

Posted: 06/17/2005 0:15:20

Thanks, that explains it. I assumed the data field was a blob field

containing raw text, but just looked at it in DBD. So now I'm back to

square one on inserting multiple lines of text at one time. Do you have any

suggestions?

"Anderson Wilson" <adwilson@terra.com.br> wrote in message

news:42b1a7a0$1@support.torry.net...

> Jim,

> When you say is the same, you are wrong, because the field Data is a

> BINARY field containg a rvf file format and NOT A STRING.

> So when you change the content of the memorystream with a string the

> method InsertRVFFromStream doesn't work!

> Anderson

> Jim Maguire wrote:

>> Thanks, but that's not it. Here's an easy way to reproduce the problem:

>> 1. Open the MailMerge2 demo

>> 2. Comment out the

>> TBlobField(Table1.FieldByName('Data')).SaveToStream(Result);

>> 3. Insert these lines instead:

>> var str: String;

>> ....

>> str := 'Insert this text in RVE';

>> Result.WriteBuffer(PChar(str)^, Length(str));

>> Result.Position := 0;

>> //TBlobField(Table1.FieldByName('Data')).SaveToStream(Result);

>> So now the only difference is I'm alway returning the TMemoryStream with

>> the same string.

>> "Anderson Wilson" <adwilson@terra.com.br> wrote in message

>> news:42b19e5c@support.torry.net...

>>>Hi Jim,

>>>

>>>I believe I found your problem.

>>>

>>>You create a Stream containing a string not a RVF file and then you use

>>>RichView2.InsertRVFFromStream method that EXPECTS an RVF format not a

>>>string.

>>>

>>>I hope this help you

>>>

>>>Anderson

>>>

>>>extracted from MemoMergeProblem.zip

>>>

>>> StringStream := TStringStream.Create('This is the first line');

>>> StringStream.Position := 0;

>>> RichEdit1.Lines.LoadFromStream( StringStream); // load stream contents

>>> into memorich

>>>

>>> Result.LoadFromStream(StringStream);

>>>

>>> //TBlobField(Table1.FieldByName('Data')).SaveToStream(Result);

>>> Result.Position := 0;

>>> RichView2.Clear;

>>> RichView2.InsertRVFFromStream(Result, 0); // inserting will merge

>>> styles;

>>> // RichView1 and RichView2 have the same collections of styles

>>>