This document introduces the basics of using the XRRichText control in
Reports, and describes its main features.
In addition to the capability to embed plain text into your report (using the
XRLabel
control), you may need to display RTF or HTML content as well. To accomplish
this , the XRRichText
control was created. It allows you to easily perform extraction of RTF or HTML
content from a defined database field, and load content from a file.
Note
When exporting to XLS or XLSX formats, XRRichText's
content is exported as plain text only.
To load RTF or HTML content into the XRRichText
control from a file, click its smart tag and in the invoked
actions list, select the Load File... link.
Then, in the invoked Open dialog, use the drop-down list to define the
file's extension (.rtf, .docx, .txt, .htm or
.html), select the file, and click Open.
Note that the mail merge feature is fully
supported for the XRRichText control, meaning that you can easily embed data
fields and images into its content.
And, with the in-place editor of the XRRichText control, you can quickly
format parts of its content using the Formatting Toolbar.