Quickreport For Delphi 11 Alexandria Upd -

Marco smiled. He loved this part. He opened WinApi.Printer.hpp and the new Vcl.Printers.pas . He saw the change: the Canvas property was now strictly protected. He couldn't inherit from TQRPrinter to fix it—the damage was deep.

uses Winapi.Windows, Vcl.Graphics, Vcl.Printers, QRPrinter; Quickreport For Delphi 11 Alexandria UPD

implementation

{$IFDEF DELPHI11_UPD} // Use legacy GDI calls for backward compatibility DrawTextA(Canvas.Handle, PAnsiChar(AnsiString(Text)), -1, Rect, DT_LEFT); {$ELSE} // Normal modern code Canvas.TextOut(X, Y, Text); {$ENDIF} At 3:45 AM, the compile succeeded. No errors. No warnings. The EXE was built. Marco smiled

He leaned back, the ergonomic chair groaning in sympathy. The problem wasn't just that QuickReport was broken. The problem was that QuickReport was abandoned . The last official update for Delphi 11 had been a community patch held together with duct tape and anonymous FTP links. The official Qusoft site hadn't been updated since 2015. He saw the change: the Canvas property was

Or he could do what real Delphi developers do: