[fpc-pascal] FPReport: Split text across two or more pages

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, Pique7 via fpc-pascal wrote:

>> Disregarding the RTF for a moment, you'd need to save the contents of the
>> text fields in a TStringlist instance in the 'afterscroll' event of the dataset.
>>
>> This instance can then be used to create a data loop for a sub band
>> (using TFPReportUserData).
>> The band connected to the dataset (the master band) would not print anything.
>> Instead, the child band will print the cell content line by line and split it over pages.
>>
>> From your drawing, it is not quite clear how you construct your columns,
>> if you're using columns, I'm not sure how the band will behave.
>>
>> Michael.
>
> Thanks again for your suggestions. I haven't tried it yet but now I've got the idea. Your are so optimistic but I still fear all the things which might make troubles in a more complex report with grouping, master/detail data, calculations, layout adjustments, HTML tags, table borders etc.
>
> However, finally I've tried to extend/improve the original FPReport classes and now I really have a FPReport version that supports band splitting for simple FPReportMemos.
> I was not able to implement this using inheritance - I've had to change the original source code in the FPC folder.
> Without any doubt there are still many bugs in my FPReport. But if you want a copy, let me know! :-)

I am always open for improvements. 
Please do send me your sources or a diff...

Michael.