Quickreport For Delphi 11 Alexandria Upd 🔖

At 12:03 AM, Marco opened the source. Not the application source—the QuickReport source. He’d kept a copy of the full source code for QuickReport 6, a relic from the CodeGear era. He dropped the QR6 folder into his project’s search path, bypassing the precompiled DCUs provided by the GetIt package manager.

He commented out the entire DrawText block. He replaced it with TTextMetric calls that were deprecated in Windows 10 but still worked . He added compiler directives: Quickreport For Delphi 11 Alexandria UPD

At 1:15 AM, he wrote a dirty, beautiful hack. He created a new unit, QRCompatPatch.pas : At 12:03 AM, Marco opened the source

function TQRPrinterHack.GetCanvasHack: TCanvas; begin // Delphi 11 UPD changed TPrinter.Canvas to strict private. // We bypass using the original Win32 DC handle. Result := TCanvas.Create; try Result.Handle := GetDC(Printer.Handle); except Result.Free; raise; end; end; He dropped the QR6 folder into his project’s

Marco picked up a red marker, crossed it out, and wrote underneath: "No. We can't even migrate it to a patch."