Re: Replacing components with pictures (metafiles, for printout)

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 08/29/2002 15:17:40

Hi,

You can try to create your own item type (inherited from item type

representing controls) with overriden printing methods.

There is an example that does exactly this thing - ChartItem

(Demos\Addins\ChartItem\)

> Hi Sergey and others!

> I'm working on a project where I use a TCustomControl decendant for

> displaying musical score clips (using GDIPlus, interacting with keyboard

> commands and so on...). This works excellent but for printing, where the

> bitmap pictures don't give satisfying result. However, it's very easy to

> convert my clips to emf metafiles.

> Could you give me a hint how to replace the components with pictures

> containing the metafiles?

> What about this pseudo code?

> (for) Iterate through RichView items line by line (do) // how to do

this..?

> (begin)

> When finding a control that I want to replace

> Storing the control size to local variables

> Saving the control data as a metafile

> Deleting the control

> Inserting a RichView picture at the same spot

> Setting its size

> Loading the metafile

> (end)

> I there a better way?

> Regards / Jonas Nyström