Re: TZF - File Browser

In a message dated 08/13/2003 8:14:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> Bob,
>  
> I'm not offended but you misunderstood my question. I don't want to browse a 
> database but an ASCII text file. 
>  
> The basic problem is that I have a old DOS program that I am converting to 
> Windows. The programs that generate all the reports are really complicated and 
> use features of Borland Pascal 7.0 that I don't see in Delphi. Anyhow even 
> if the features I used were in Delphi I don't want to rewrite them because 1) 
> they work great in DOS 2) some are very complicated and I don't relish the 
> idea of redoing them.
>  
>  The reports do have an option to output to an ASCII text file. So what I 
> want to do is write a front end in Delphi that will get the parameters such as 
> date range, distributor and type of report for example and start the DOS 
> program and pass the parameter in a file or as command line parameters. 
>  
> I then want to load the ASCII file into a text browser where the user can 
> view or print the file. I need a browse that will allow me to set the font to a 
> fixed font to keep the column aligned, do a copy and paste, print and simple 
> things like that. No editing allowed!
>  
> Phil
> 

Phil,

Would the richEdit not work?  You could put a print button on the form
and call   richEdit1.Print('').

The user can easily view the file.  You can set its font to Courier New, 
which will nicely keep everything aligned.  You can do a copy and 
paste and you can set it to readOnly:=True (property) which will
prevent editing .

I have recently found that you can make parts of the richEdit bold 
or any other "normal" feature of a font (underline, italic, colors, etc).
I am not accomplished with this part yet, but I know it is possible.

On the cutting/pasting, you cannot right click it and get a menu (to my 
knowledge)
but you can do a control-C to place selected text on the clipboard for
future pasting.  You can select text by dragging the cursor (or
by shift-Click I would think).  To my knowledge, you could not select
a specific column of information in this table you are wanting to view.

Ohhh, my "are you kidding" comment was because of your last
name - I just think that KIdder is a "cool name".  It certainly was not a 
"shot" at your question, nor was I making fun of your name - I just
like your name ... not enough to change my own, but I like it.  :)

Thanks,
Bob

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