How to correctly use Markup in a ReportRecordItem

Hi,

I'm trying to use Markup in a ReportRecordItem, but I cannot figure it out how to correctly do it.

Running the sample

"C:\<ProgramFiles>\Codejock Xtreme SuitePro ActiveX v13.3.1\Samples\ReportControl\VB\ReportSample\ReportSample.vbp"

opens the "ReportControl Sample" window containing a subject called "[CodeToolBox] Newsletter (10 May 2004)".

What I want to achieve by using Markup is that the subject's word "Newsletter" is displayed in red, resulting in the following:

[CodeToolBox] Newsletter (10 May 2004)

To get this result I have done the following in the code window of frmMain.frm:

Replaced

Subject = "[CodeToolBox] Newsletter (10 May 2004)"

with

Subject = "<TextBlock>[CodeToolBox] <Run Foreground='red'> Newsletter</Run> (10 May 2004)</TextBlock>"

Directly below this assignment I inserted

wndReportControl.EnableMarkup = True

After running the sample again the mentioned subject is displayed as

"<TextBlock>[CodeToolBox] <Run Foreground='red'> Newsletter</Run> (10 May 2004)</TextBlock>"

rather than as

"[CodeToolBox] Newsletter (10 May 2004)".

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong and how to achieve the word Newsletter beeing displayed in red by using Markup in this ReportRecordItem?

Thank you for your help.

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Hi Aaron,

thank you for the tip.

But in the mentioned assignment

Subject = "[CodeToolBox] Newsletter (10 May 2004)"

"Subject" is a variable which will be later (after setting wndReportControl.EnableMarkup = True) used in the Sub "AddRecord" in the statement

Record.AddItem Subject

therefore

wndReportControl.EnableMarkup = True

IS set BEFORE the Markup string is REALLY used in the ReportRecordItem.

Nevertheless, it seems that it does not matter WHEN wndReportControl.EnableMarkup = True is set, as long as it is BEFORE

wndReportControl.Populate

Any other ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Hi Aaron,

Aaron wrote: Hope this helps

Yes, it helped a lot. Because now it DOES work. Thank you very much for this code snippet. Something like this should have been mentioned in the help file (SymbolReference.chm), but I have nothing found about correctly setting up Markup usage for a ReportRecordItem, also because there is no Codejock ReportRecordItem sample where you could look at.

After some additional investigation I found out the following:

The statement

.AddItem("<TextBlock>[CodeToolBox] <Run Foreground='Red'> Newsletter</Run> (10 May 2004)</TextBlock>")

adds the string "<TextBlock>[CodeToolBox] <Run Foreground='Red'> Newsletter</Run> (10 May 2004)</TextBlock>" BOTH to the .Value AND to the .Caption property of the added ReportRecordItem, and THAT IS the problem, when you do NOT use

.PaintManager.ForceDynamicMarkupForCell = True

which - according to SymbolReference.chm - should be used "Only for virtual mode!".

In other words, to have Markup correctly set up for a ReportRecordItem it is required that its .Caption property contains the Markup and its .Value property is "", and this can only be achieved by the snippet you mentioned, so that's the solution:

With Me.wndReportControl         .EnableMarkup = True         .Columns.Add 0, "Column 1", 100, True                  With Me.wndReportControl             With .Records.Add()                 With .AddItem("")                     .Caption = "<TextBlock>[CodeToolBox] <Run Foreground='Red'> Newsletter</Run> (10 May 2004)</TextBlock>"                 End With             End With         End With                  wndReportControl.Populate End With

Note, that setting a ReportRecordItem's .Value property always implicitely sets its .Caption property too, so be careful. In other words, trying to assign the Markup to the .Caption property first and then setting .Value = "" does not work, because in this case .Caption would also be "", that is, the Markup has gone away by means of the .Value = "" assignment.

Again, thank you very much for your help, Aaron.

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