Hi people speaking about Blob,
sorry for introducing a slightly different subject, but it's about Blob.

Our customer asked an RTF file to be printed not as attachment, but as

of the report.
I tried this and that - here is what was done:

1. declared a Virtual variable (as BlobImage - for some reason as

doesn't work, though it's RTF I am embedding)

2. put RTF control on one of the pages (separately printed from Top) and
just extended the control to the length of the page.

3. assigned the above variable BlobImage to that RTF control, and then
updated in suffix to FILE2BLB (RTFPath)
( I also have an Actual Blob saved in a Table (not a path) - but I am

it as a deceiving nicely looking screen.
I cannot print Actual Blob from my table on Report - failed absolutely.)

good thing - it started to appear on my Report, but only within the frames
of the control size which I made on the form - I tried all properties -

Multi, but it's showing smth weird in that case.
It just cuts half of the file. In other words, customers are told to make
one-page file and it works.


I am wondering if anyone could help me - either to print this actual Blob
stored in a table (when I open it - it hasn't lost anything, because it's
OLE2 in the table, and RTF on Report???).
Or to help me figure out how to extend the virtual BlobImage control

to BlobPath by FILE2BLB.

Natasha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven G. Blank" <sgblank@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff

Tom,

Mmmm, HOW to see what's in a BLOB depends on WHAT's in the BLOB. No,

much help, but I guess it also depends on what you mean by "see." If

just want to see the raw bytes, you can write the contents of the BLOB

to a file using Blb2File() and then view the file with a hex editor or,

you know the bytes are a bitmap image, then you can view the file with

Paint or some such or, if you know the bytes are rich text, then you can
view the file using WordPad, and so on.

Regarding File2Blb(), either an Alpha variable or an expression works as
the argument as long as it contains, or evaluates to, an existing
filename.

Steve Blank


At 03:09 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:

Hey, Group:

How does one see what is actually in a blob field?

FILE2BLB documentation says that the parameter is a file. However, can

large string variable be used as the parameter?

Thanks.

Tom Martin

----------------------------
Steven G. Blank
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
----------------------------




Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

RTF fields don't expand
:-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "RDMI Tech Support" <tech@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff (a little off-topic)

Hi people speaking about Blob,
sorry for introducing a slightly different subject, but it's about Blob.

Our customer asked an RTF file to be printed not as attachment, but as

part

of the report.
I tried this and that - here is what was done:

1. declared a Virtual variable (as BlobImage - for some reason as

RTFBlob

doesn't work, though it's RTF I am embedding)

2. put RTF control on one of the pages (separately printed from Top) and
just extended the control to the length of the page.

3. assigned the above variable BlobImage to that RTF control, and then
updated in suffix to FILE2BLB (RTFPath)
( I also have an Actual Blob saved in a Table (not a path) - but I am

using

it as a deceiving nicely looking screen.
I cannot print Actual Blob from my table on Report - failed absolutely.)

good thing - it started to appear on my Report, but only within the frames
of the control size which I made on the form - I tried all properties -

grow

Multi, but it's showing smth weird in that case.
It just cuts half of the file. In other words, customers are told to make
one-page file and it works.


I am wondering if anyone could help me - either to print this actual Blob
stored in a table (when I open it - it hasn't lost anything, because it's
OLE2 in the table, and RTF on Report???).
Or to help me figure out how to extend the virtual BlobImage control

updated

to BlobPath by FILE2BLB.

Natasha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven G. Blank" <sgblank@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff

Tom,

Mmmm, HOW to see what's in a BLOB depends on WHAT's in the BLOB. No,

not

much help, but I guess it also depends on what you mean by "see." If

you

just want to see the raw bytes, you can write the contents of the BLOB

out

to a file using Blb2File() and then view the file with a hex editor or,

if

you know the bytes are a bitmap image, then you can view the file with

MS

Paint or some such or, if you know the bytes are rich text, then you can
view the file using WordPad, and so on.

Regarding File2Blb(), either an Alpha variable or an expression works as
the argument as long as it contains, or evaluates to, an existing
filename.

Steve Blank


At 03:09 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:

Hey, Group:

How does one see what is actually in a blob field?

FILE2BLB documentation says that the parameter is a file. However, can

a

large string variable be used as the parameter?

Thanks.

Tom Martin

----------------------------
Steven G. Blank
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
----------------------------




Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

RTF fields don't expand
:-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "RDMI Tech Support" <tech@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff (a little off-topic)

Hi people speaking about Blob,
sorry for introducing a slightly different subject, but it's about Blob.

Our customer asked an RTF file to be printed not as attachment, but as

part

of the report.
I tried this and that - here is what was done:

1. declared a Virtual variable (as BlobImage - for some reason as

RTFBlob

doesn't work, though it's RTF I am embedding)

2. put RTF control on one of the pages (separately printed from Top) and
just extended the control to the length of the page.

3. assigned the above variable BlobImage to that RTF control, and then
updated in suffix to FILE2BLB (RTFPath)
( I also have an Actual Blob saved in a Table (not a path) - but I am

using

it as a deceiving nicely looking screen.
I cannot print Actual Blob from my table on Report - failed absolutely.)

good thing - it started to appear on my Report, but only within the
frames
of the control size which I made on the form - I tried all properties -

grow

Multi, but it's showing smth weird in that case.
It just cuts half of the file. In other words, customers are told to make
one-page file and it works.


I am wondering if anyone could help me - either to print this actual
Blob
stored in a table (when I open it - it hasn't lost anything, because it's
OLE2 in the table, and RTF on Report???).
Or to help me figure out how to extend the virtual BlobImage control

updated

to BlobPath by FILE2BLB.

Natasha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven G. Blank" <sgblank@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff

Tom,

Mmmm, HOW to see what's in a BLOB depends on WHAT's in the BLOB. No,

not

much help, but I guess it also depends on what you mean by "see." If

you

just want to see the raw bytes, you can write the contents of the BLOB

out

to a file using Blb2File() and then view the file with a hex editor or,

if

you know the bytes are a bitmap image, then you can view the file with

MS

Paint or some such or, if you know the bytes are rich text, then you
can
view the file using WordPad, and so on.

Regarding File2Blb(), either an Alpha variable or an expression works
as
the argument as long as it contains, or evaluates to, an existing
filename.

Steve Blank


At 03:09 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:

Hey, Group:

How does one see what is actually in a blob field?

FILE2BLB documentation says that the parameter is a file. However, can

a

large string variable be used as the parameter?

Thanks.

Tom Martin

----------------------------
Steven G. Blank
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
----------------------------




Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Check out Mark Bailey's RTFEditor and RTFPreviw
It can be used to create reports as well and letters.

www.majikworks.com.au


Roger B. Ross
Tel: 860.874.7764
Fax:860.432.0722
skype:rbross
email: rbross@...

-----Original Message-----
From: magicu-l@... [mailto:magicu-l@...] On Behalf
Of RDMI Tech Support
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:46 PM
To: magicu-l@...
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

Hi Sherman,
thank you for your detailed and reassuring answer!

I am just wondering - has anyone put anything embedded inside a report?
ANYTHING - Doc, RTF, doesn't matter - they want bold, grids, all that fancy
stuff.

It looks very nice, even that one little page of RTF that I managed to
embed.

Or you know how to trick it? Like to put the control on another page and
continue if the string is not finished?

I did once smth like that with Memo when I didn't know about expanding.
Char by char it was displayed as in some not rapid application development
tool.
But maybe somebody already has done this module and I can use it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherman Levine" <slevine@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:44 PM
Subject: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

RTF fields don't expand
:-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "RDMI Tech Support" <tech@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff (a little off-topic)

Hi people speaking about Blob,
sorry for introducing a slightly different subject, but it's about Blob.

Our customer asked an RTF file to be printed not as attachment, but as

part

of the report.
I tried this and that - here is what was done:

1. declared a Virtual variable (as BlobImage - for some reason as

RTFBlob

doesn't work, though it's RTF I am embedding)

2. put RTF control on one of the pages (separately printed from Top) and
just extended the control to the length of the page.

3. assigned the above variable BlobImage to that RTF control, and then
updated in suffix to FILE2BLB (RTFPath)
( I also have an Actual Blob saved in a Table (not a path) - but I am

using

it as a deceiving nicely looking screen.
I cannot print Actual Blob from my table on Report - failed absolutely.)

good thing - it started to appear on my Report, but only within the
frames
of the control size which I made on the form - I tried all properties -

grow

Multi, but it's showing smth weird in that case.
It just cuts half of the file. In other words, customers are told to make
one-page file and it works.


I am wondering if anyone could help me - either to print this actual
Blob
stored in a table (when I open it - it hasn't lost anything, because it's
OLE2 in the table, and RTF on Report???).
Or to help me figure out how to extend the virtual BlobImage control

updated

to BlobPath by FILE2BLB.

Natasha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven G. Blank" <sgblank@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff

Tom,

Mmmm, HOW to see what's in a BLOB depends on WHAT's in the BLOB. No,

not

much help, but I guess it also depends on what you mean by "see." If

you

just want to see the raw bytes, you can write the contents of the BLOB

out

to a file using Blb2File() and then view the file with a hex editor or,

if

you know the bytes are a bitmap image, then you can view the file with

MS

Paint or some such or, if you know the bytes are rich text, then you
can
view the file using WordPad, and so on.

Regarding File2Blb(), either an Alpha variable or an expression works
as
the argument as long as it contains, or evaluates to, an existing
filename.

Steve Blank


At 03:09 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:

Hey, Group:

How does one see what is actually in a blob field?

FILE2BLB documentation says that the parameter is a file. However, can

a

large string variable be used as the parameter?

Thanks.

Tom Martin

----------------------------
Steven G. Blank
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
----------------------------




Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links












Yahoo! Groups Links

-----Original Message-----
From: RDMI Tech Support [mailto:tech@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 05:45 PM
To: magicu-l@...
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

Hi Sherman,
thank you for your detailed and reassuring answer!

I am just wondering - has anyone put anything embedded inside a report?
ANYTHING - Doc, RTF, doesn't matter - they want bold, grids, all that fancy
stuff.

It looks very nice, even that one little page of RTF that I managed to
embed.

Or you know how to trick it? Like to put the control on another page and
continue if the string is not finished?

I did once smth like that with Memo when I didn't know about expanding.
Char by char it was displayed as in some not rapid application development
tool.
But maybe somebody already has done this module and I can use it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherman Levine" <slevine@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:44 PM
Subject: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

RTF fields don't expand
:-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "RDMI Tech Support" <tech@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff (a little off-topic)

Hi people speaking about Blob,
sorry for introducing a slightly different subject, but it's about Blob.

Our customer asked an RTF file to be printed not as attachment, but as

part

of the report.
I tried this and that - here is what was done:

1. declared a Virtual variable (as BlobImage - for some reason as

RTFBlob

doesn't work, though it's RTF I am embedding)

2. put RTF control on one of the pages (separately printed from Top) and
just extended the control to the length of the page.

3. assigned the above variable BlobImage to that RTF control, and then
updated in suffix to FILE2BLB (RTFPath)
( I also have an Actual Blob saved in a Table (not a path) - but I am

using

it as a deceiving nicely looking screen.
I cannot print Actual Blob from my table on Report - failed absolutely.)

good thing - it started to appear on my Report, but only within the
frames
of the control size which I made on the form - I tried all properties -

grow

Multi, but it's showing smth weird in that case.
It just cuts half of the file. In other words, customers are told to make
one-page file and it works.


I am wondering if anyone could help me - either to print this actual
Blob
stored in a table (when I open it - it hasn't lost anything, because it's
OLE2 in the table, and RTF on Report???).
Or to help me figure out how to extend the virtual BlobImage control

updated

to BlobPath by FILE2BLB.

Natasha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven G. Blank" <sgblank@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff

Tom,

Mmmm, HOW to see what's in a BLOB depends on WHAT's in the BLOB. No,

not

much help, but I guess it also depends on what you mean by "see." If

you

just want to see the raw bytes, you can write the contents of the BLOB

out

to a file using Blb2File() and then view the file with a hex editor or,

if

you know the bytes are a bitmap image, then you can view the file with

MS

Paint or some such or, if you know the bytes are rich text, then you
can
view the file using WordPad, and so on.

Regarding File2Blb(), either an Alpha variable or an expression works
as
the argument as long as it contains, or evaluates to, an existing
filename.

Steve Blank


At 03:09 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:

Hey, Group:

How does one see what is actually in a blob field?

FILE2BLB documentation says that the parameter is a file. However, can

a

large string variable be used as the parameter?

Thanks.

Tom Martin

----------------------------
Steven G. Blank
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
----------------------------




Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

The only way we've been able to handle really flexible
user-definable document development is with an external tool.

LaTeX text processing language is incredibly powerful, but I don't
think it has a GUI interface - but you can do almost anything with
it (or at least you can if you're Ira)

Intelliview is fine if your design fits within its constraints -
Try it - it has a nice GUI interface, and it may do what you need it to - and the price is decent.

Beyond that, Scriptura from www.intelligentdesigners.com is "state
of the art" for page design - but it's rather expensive.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list - just a few which we've
used successfully for various clients.

-----Original Message-----
From: RDMI Tech Support [mailto:tech@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 05:45 PM
To: magicu-l@...
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

Hi Sherman,
thank you for your detailed and reassuring answer!

I am just wondering - has anyone put anything embedded inside a report?
ANYTHING - Doc, RTF, doesn't matter - they want bold, grids, all that fancy
stuff.

It looks very nice, even that one little page of RTF that I managed to
embed.

Or you know how to trick it? Like to put the control on another page and
continue if the string is not finished?

I did once smth like that with Memo when I didn't know about expanding.
Char by char it was displayed as in some not rapid application development
tool.
But maybe somebody already has done this module and I can use it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherman Levine" <slevine@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:44 PM
Subject: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

RTF fields don't expand
:-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "RDMI Tech Support" <tech@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff (a little off-topic)

Hi people speaking about Blob,
sorry for introducing a slightly different subject, but it's about Blob.

Our customer asked an RTF file to be printed not as attachment, but as

part

of the report.
I tried this and that - here is what was done:

1. declared a Virtual variable (as BlobImage - for some reason as

RTFBlob

doesn't work, though it's RTF I am embedding)

2. put RTF control on one of the pages (separately printed from Top) and
just extended the control to the length of the page.

3. assigned the above variable BlobImage to that RTF control, and then
updated in suffix to FILE2BLB (RTFPath)
( I also have an Actual Blob saved in a Table (not a path) - but I am

using

it as a deceiving nicely looking screen.
I cannot print Actual Blob from my table on Report - failed absolutely.)

good thing - it started to appear on my Report, but only within the
frames
of the control size which I made on the form - I tried all properties -

grow

Multi, but it's showing smth weird in that case.
It just cuts half of the file. In other words, customers are told to make
one-page file and it works.


I am wondering if anyone could help me - either to print this actual
Blob
stored in a table (when I open it - it hasn't lost anything, because it's
OLE2 in the table, and RTF on Report???).
Or to help me figure out how to extend the virtual BlobImage control

updated

to BlobPath by FILE2BLB.

Natasha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven G. Blank" <sgblank@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff

Tom,

Mmmm, HOW to see what's in a BLOB depends on WHAT's in the BLOB. No,

not

much help, but I guess it also depends on what you mean by "see." If

you

just want to see the raw bytes, you can write the contents of the BLOB

out

to a file using Blb2File() and then view the file with a hex editor or,

if

you know the bytes are a bitmap image, then you can view the file with

MS

Paint or some such or, if you know the bytes are rich text, then you
can
view the file using WordPad, and so on.

Regarding File2Blb(), either an Alpha variable or an expression works
as
the argument as long as it contains, or evaluates to, an existing
filename.

Steve Blank


At 03:09 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:

Hey, Group:

How does one see what is actually in a blob field?

FILE2BLB documentation says that the parameter is a file. However, can

a

large string variable be used as the parameter?

Thanks.

Tom Martin

----------------------------
Steven G. Blank
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
----------------------------




Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

sorry
google scriptura
sherm



Norbert Gutscher wrote:

To: "slevine@..." <magicu-l@...>
From: Norbert Gutscher <norbert@...>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:46:29 +0200
Subject: Re[2]: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

Hi Sherman,

LaTeX is very powerful an I like it to produce internal documents. It
has no GUI and not adequate to install this tons of files at a
customer except he uses it for other things.

As it is real ACII, there is also the possibility to "html merge" it.
:-)

( www.intelligentdesigners.com shows an empty directory list)


--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Norbert Gutscher

Mail: mailto:norbert@...
Software: http://www.ng-sw.de
Fotografie: http://www.ng-foto.de
Kalender: http://www.ng-foto.de/produktion.html

Nachricht vom Thursday, April 6, 2006, 12:20:32 AM

The only way we've been able to handle really flexible
user-definable document development is with an external tool.

sherman levine



Yahoo! Groups Links

Hi Sherman,
thank you for your detailed and reassuring answer!

I am just wondering - has anyone put anything embedded inside a report?
ANYTHING - Doc, RTF, doesn't matter - they want bold, grids, all that fancy
stuff.

It looks very nice, even that one little page of RTF that I managed to
embed.

Or you know how to trick it? Like to put the control on another page and
continue if the string is not finished?

I did once smth like that with Memo when I didn't know about expanding.
Char by char it was displayed as in some not rapid application development
tool.
But maybe somebody already has done this module and I can use it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherman Levine" <slevine@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:44 PM
Subject: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

RTF fields don't expand
:-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "RDMI Tech Support" <tech@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff (a little off-topic)

Hi people speaking about Blob,
sorry for introducing a slightly different subject, but it's about Blob.

Our customer asked an RTF file to be printed not as attachment, but as

part

of the report.
I tried this and that - here is what was done:

1. declared a Virtual variable (as BlobImage - for some reason as

RTFBlob

doesn't work, though it's RTF I am embedding)

2. put RTF control on one of the pages (separately printed from Top) and
just extended the control to the length of the page.

3. assigned the above variable BlobImage to that RTF control, and then
updated in suffix to FILE2BLB (RTFPath)
( I also have an Actual Blob saved in a Table (not a path) - but I am

using

it as a deceiving nicely looking screen.
I cannot print Actual Blob from my table on Report - failed absolutely.)

good thing - it started to appear on my Report, but only within the
frames
of the control size which I made on the form - I tried all properties -

grow

Multi, but it's showing smth weird in that case.
It just cuts half of the file. In other words, customers are told to make
one-page file and it works.


I am wondering if anyone could help me - either to print this actual
Blob
stored in a table (when I open it - it hasn't lost anything, because it's
OLE2 in the table, and RTF on Report???).
Or to help me figure out how to extend the virtual BlobImage control

updated

to BlobPath by FILE2BLB.

Natasha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven G. Blank" <sgblank@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff

Tom,

Mmmm, HOW to see what's in a BLOB depends on WHAT's in the BLOB. No,

not

much help, but I guess it also depends on what you mean by "see." If

you

just want to see the raw bytes, you can write the contents of the BLOB

out

to a file using Blb2File() and then view the file with a hex editor or,

if

you know the bytes are a bitmap image, then you can view the file with

MS

Paint or some such or, if you know the bytes are rich text, then you
can
view the file using WordPad, and so on.

Regarding File2Blb(), either an Alpha variable or an expression works
as
the argument as long as it contains, or evaluates to, an existing
filename.

Steve Blank


At 03:09 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:

Hey, Group:

How does one see what is actually in a blob field?

FILE2BLB documentation says that the parameter is a file. However, can

a

large string variable be used as the parameter?

Thanks.

Tom Martin

----------------------------
Steven G. Blank
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
----------------------------




Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

Natasha

I have used multi-page RTF files inside a report, but the only way I could
find to do this was by making the report itself an RTF file. This was fine
for our purpose, as the client wanted it as a Word document which they could
read, edit and print as required. If however you just want to print it, it
should be reasonably simple to automate a call to Word to open and print the
final document.

The way I did it was to use Output Merge to a pre-defined RTF template file.
Originally I used the standard MG_INCLUDE method to embed the required RTF
file, but this didn't work well - the problem was that it, of course,
brought with it its own RTF header section. This screwed up the formatting
of the rest of the document. The solution I found was that if I created my
template RTF file in Word (I'd normally have used WordPad, as it creates
simpler, more manageable RTF code), I could insert an 'IncludeText' type
field, pointing to the RTF file I wanted embedding. In fact, I then realised
that I could identify the RTF code that Word inserted to create this field,
replace it with a single Merge tag, and merge the RTF code to this at run
time with the name of the actual file I wanted to include.

This may seem rather complicated, but it's not really when you get your head
around it, and it DOES work a treat!

HTH
Mike Bannon
DataFormation Ltd., UK


----- Original Message -----
From: "RDMI Tech Support" <tech@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

Hi Sherman,
thank you for your detailed and reassuring answer!

I am just wondering - has anyone put anything embedded inside a report?
ANYTHING - Doc, RTF, doesn't matter - they want bold, grids, all that
fancy
stuff.

It looks very nice, even that one little page of RTF that I managed to
embed.

Or you know how to trick it? Like to put the control on another page and
continue if the string is not finished?

I did once smth like that with Memo when I didn't know about expanding.
Char by char it was displayed as in some not rapid application development
tool.
But maybe somebody already has done this module and I can use it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherman Levine" <slevine@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:44 PM
Subject: [magicu-l] what about BLOB?

RTF fields don't expand
:-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "RDMI Tech Support" <tech@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff (a little off-topic)

Hi people speaking about Blob,
sorry for introducing a slightly different subject, but it's about Blob.

Our customer asked an RTF file to be printed not as attachment, but as

part

of the report.
I tried this and that - here is what was done:

1. declared a Virtual variable (as BlobImage - for some reason as

RTFBlob

doesn't work, though it's RTF I am embedding)

2. put RTF control on one of the pages (separately printed from Top)
and
just extended the control to the length of the page.

3. assigned the above variable BlobImage to that RTF control, and then
updated in suffix to FILE2BLB (RTFPath)
( I also have an Actual Blob saved in a Table (not a path) - but I am

using

it as a deceiving nicely looking screen.
I cannot print Actual Blob from my table on Report - failed absolutely.)

good thing - it started to appear on my Report, but only within the
frames
of the control size which I made on the form - I tried all properties -

grow

Multi, but it's showing smth weird in that case.
It just cuts half of the file. In other words, customers are told to
make
one-page file and it works.


I am wondering if anyone could help me - either to print this actual
Blob
stored in a table (when I open it - it hasn't lost anything, because
it's
OLE2 in the table, and RTF on Report???).
Or to help me figure out how to extend the virtual BlobImage control

updated

to BlobPath by FILE2BLB.

Natasha


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven G. Blank" <sgblank@...>
To: <magicu-l@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [magicu-l] Blob stuff

Tom,

Mmmm, HOW to see what's in a BLOB depends on WHAT's in the BLOB. No,

not

much help, but I guess it also depends on what you mean by "see." If

you

just want to see the raw bytes, you can write the contents of the BLOB

out

to a file using Blb2File() and then view the file with a hex editor
or,

if

you know the bytes are a bitmap image, then you can view the file with

MS

Paint or some such or, if you know the bytes are rich text, then you
can
view the file using WordPad, and so on.

Regarding File2Blb(), either an Alpha variable or an expression works
as
the argument as long as it contains, or evaluates to, an existing
filename.

Steve Blank


At 03:09 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:

Hey, Group:

How does one see what is actually in a blob field?

FILE2BLB documentation says that the parameter is a file. However,
can

a

large string variable be used as the parameter?

Thanks.

Tom Martin

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Steven G. Blank
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
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