What is TRichView

TRichView is a suite of native Delphi/C++Builder VCL and Lazarus (Free Pascal) LCL components for displaying, editing and printing complex rich text documents.

TRichView can be used to develop advanced text editors, web/help/book authoring applications, chats and messengers, organizers and diaries, multimedia encyclopedias, and other applications that need a high quality rich text editor or a hypertext user interface.

The components support various character attributes (fonts, subscripts/superscripts, colored text background, custom drawn). Documents can contain tables, pictures, images from imagelists, footnotes and endnotes, any Delphi controls. Left, right, center or justify paragraph allignment, custom margins and indents, multilevel bullets and numbering, background images, print preview, data-aware versions and more...

Using TRichView rich text control, you can create an RTF editor which is able to export documents in HTML and DocX formats.

TRichView is completely written in Delphi, it does not require external DLL or ActiveX files. It is not based on Microsoft RichEdit control. A registered version of the Package includes full source code.

TRichView VCL components support Unicode text not only in new versions of RAD Studio, but also in Delphi 5–2007 and C++Builder 6–2007.

List of Features

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• Rich text and paragraph formatting
  Custom fonts, colors, alignments, indents...
• Images in documents
  Gif animations, semitransparent Png images, bitmaps, metafiles, icons, jpegs, and more
• Delphi/C++Builder controls in documents
  Unique feature!
• Tables
  HTML-style tables with formatted contents in every cell
• Bullets & numbering
• Styles of text and paragraphs
• Multi-language support
  Multiple character sets, Unicode, bi-directional text
• hypertext and related features
  Hyperlinks, checkpoints, tags
• Import and export, databases
  Import from RTF and DocX (Microsoft Word Document), export to RTF, DocX, HTML, PDF, and more
• Special editing features
  Undo and text protection
• Printing with preview
• Spell-checking
  Including live spelling with third-party spell checkers

Interactions with third-party products

You can use TRichView together with third-party components. For example, you can use Addict spelling checker with our editor to highlight misspelled words; or you can add TRichView objects in ReportBuilder or QuickReport reports; or you can use TRichView as an editor for cxGrid developed by Developer Express Inc.

The TRichView setup installs integration components automatically, if corresponding third-party libraries are already installed.

Note: TRichView does not include neither a source code nor an object code of these third-party components. Copyright to these third-party components belongs to the respective owners.

Components in the Package

Documentation

Online manual

Additional information and resources

• Trial version
• Compiled demo projects
• License agreement

What is Report Workshop

Report Workshop is a set of VCL components for creating reports. Report Workshop is based on TRichView.

Report Workshop can be logically divided into the following groups:

• Report design
• Report generation
• Data providers

Report design

Reports are designed in TRichView editor. ScaleRichView may be used as well. Report Workshop extends a user interface of RichViewActions by adding commands for report designing: a dialog for editing report-related document properties, dialogs for associating data queries with table rows and cells, dialogs for defining properties of cross tabulation tables (pivot tables), etc.

Report generation

Reports are generated in TRichView (ScaleRichView) editors as well.

There is a single component for report generation:

TRVReportGenerator

Just call the Execute() method, and a report will be built.

Data providers

Data providers are a collection of components supplying data for reports. A data provider component processes data queries and returns data.

Report Workshop includes data providers based on standard and popular third-party components (including FireDAC, dbExpress, ADO/dbGo, Interbase Express, BDE, AbsoluteDB, NexusDB, DBISAM, ElevateDB, UniDAC, others DACs by DevArt and MicroOLAP), as well as a data provider working with any TDataSet-based components.

Additional information

• Data providers for reports
• Making simple and master/detail reports
• Cross tabulation (pivot tables)
• Color scales and data visualizers

Comparison to other reporting components

There are many reporting components available for Delphi and C++Builder. However, Report Workshop is a unique product offering a new approach and features that cannot be found in competing products.

Existing reporting components can be divided into two groups:

1. components creating reports in a way of a vector graphic editor
2. components based on some text editing engine

The first group of components is the most developed software for report making. At a design mode, they allow placing objects (like labels, images, shapes, text boxes) at any positions on a working space. These components have some disadvantages following from their design:

• Users need to study a special user interface used in their report designers.
  On the contrary, the Report Workshop’s report designer has a familiar text editor (word processing) user interface, and analogs of 90% of its commands can be found in other advanced text editors, such as Microsoft Word or Open Office. There is only one special object: report table.
• Complexity of report designing.
  Users need to align objects to each other and maintain correct spacing between them to create a beautiful professional-looking reports. Any change in exiting report design (adding or deleting objects) may require to realign objects and may be as complex as creating a new report. On the contrary, Report Workshop places objects automatically in a text flow (although it supports floating text boxes). You can build a perfect report (in code or in a user interface) without specifying a single coordinate.
• Fixed report result.
  Normally, the report results cannot be edited. On the contrary, in Report Workshop, both report templates and report results are editable documents. Additionally, report results can contain hypertext links from one parts of reports to other parts, allowing to build cross references and tables of contents.
• Lower quality of exported results of reports.
  While export to some formats are OK, export to text documents (HTML, RTF, Microsoft Word documents) is not good. A report content is exported as floating objects making it almost impossible to modify these documents. On the contrary, Report Workshop can export reports in these formats with the maximum possible quality.
• Design limitation.
  Usually, these report components allow placing sub-reports only in special places. In Report Workshop, any table cell may be a sub-report. For example, you can make a sub-report inside cells of a cross tabulation (pivot) table.

The second group of reporting components (based on text editors) usually offer less features. Users need to study some scripting language to make reports from text documents. Limitations of their text engines do not allow adding report-oriented features other than scripting. On the contrary, in Report Workshop provides user interface for report designing, where user can define report properties in special dialog windows. The power of TRichView text engine allows extending capabilities of documents and tables to add reporting features in their properties.

Features not included in the first release

The following features are not yet implemented, we plan to add them in future updates:

• user interface for editing data fields (editing field types and format strings)
• user interface for editing report variables

Documentation

Online manual

Video manual

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