How to capture the state of the web designer?

[duheng]

Hi,

I want to know if there is a way to capture the current state of the web designer. For example, I added a databand into the template, and dragged a column into it. What event is fired for these actions? In the code behind, how should I get these new changes I made into the template without clicking the save button?

BTW, i have my webDesigner control in a aspx page.

Thanks.

Best regards,

[HighAley]

Hello.

The Web Designer is a Flex application and it's impossible to catch any event in it.

Thank you.

[duheng]

Hi,

I am using StimulSoft.Reports.web (our company purchased it) not StimulSoft.Reports.FX.

But I did notice that when I launch the designer there is message "loading designer.fx". Is stimulSoft.Reports.Web based on adobe flex technology? It's not stated like that in your website. It yes, why you have a separate product line "stimulsoft.reports.fx"? Would you please explain a little bit more about the technology behind stimulSoft.reports.web? Thanks.

Best regards,
Duheng

[HighAley]

Hello, Duheng.

Sorry for a little misunderstanding. The Web Designer is a Flash application which is used to create reports. It's just a client-side component of the Reports.Web product. The Web Designer is connected with server-side report engine. This set could be used in the ASP.NET projects.
The Reports.Fx for Flex product is created to be used in the Flex projects and have no server-side report engine. Also it has some limitations.

Thank you.

[duheng]

Thanks for your reply.

Is there any way that we can use to maintain the state of the designer?

1. I know that there is a boolean property "isModified" that we can use to check if the template is changed or not. I am wondering based on what you set this property as true. For example, I open a template in a designer, when I drag a new data field to the template, the property "isModified" will be set as true. So based on what info, you set "isModified" as true?

2. I know there is a way to auto generate the source code (c#) of the template. What's the settings? How to translate the source code to template? If I can get the source code of the template instantly which means it has all the changes I made before saving the template, and if there is a way to transfer this source code back to template, then I can save the source code in my cache to achieve the purpose of capturing the state of the designer.

Thanks again.

[HighAley]

Hello, Duheng.

1. I know that there is a boolean property "isModified" that we can use to check if the template is changed or not. I am wondering based on what you set this property as true. For example, I open a template in a designer, when I drag a new data field to the template, the property "isModified" will be set as true. So based on what info, you set "isModified" as true?

All modifications was report are made on the client's side in the Flash application. And it's impossible to get any information about modification of the report in Web Designer. This issue is connected with problems of implementing of Undo/Redo feature.

2. I know there is a way to auto generate the source code (c#) of the template. What's the settings? How to translate the source code to template? If I can get the source code of the template instantly which means it has all the changes I made before saving the template, and if there is a way to transfer this source code back to template, then I can save the source code in my cache to achieve the purpose of capturing the state of the designer.

It seems that you messed up the complied report with report template. It's impossible to get report template from compiled report.

Thank you.