ToWords() Method within crystal Report

[achrafus]

hi everybody, I have a small question concerning the use of ToWords() method that is embeded within Crystal Report.This function translates numeric values into their coresponding words value ex:150 --> One handred and fifty. The problem I got is that I got an automatic english conversion of my numeric values where I need french corresponing string value. Is there any way I can swish it to french? Or how can I add my function, that does the french translation, to the crystal report embeded functions? If anyone can help pls do. Learning is never ending

[Russell Jones]

to add your own function create a COM dll whose name starts with CRUFL and place it in the same directory as u2lcom.dll on your machine. Functions declared in the dll will now be available to crystal reports. I've used this before to translate report labels. HTH Russ

[Russell Jones]

Just to clarify about com dlls. I have done this in the past using VB6 which created the dlls for me. Now that vb and c# 2005 express editors are available from MS free of charge i guess you could use these and generate interop assemblies to use with crystal. i found this link on codeproject with a .net example http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/DecryptForCrystal.asp?print=true HTH Russ

[achrafus]

hi, and sorry again. I followed the steps that are in the link and got some problems I couldn"t deal with. The first is that my DLL couldn't be registered within Windows. It says "No DLLRegisterServer Access point found"? I don't know what it means. The other problem is that within my project the "register for Com Interop is set to false but does not allow changes to true. What I did is I created a new projet containing only the class needed to the translation an builded a new DLL named CRUFLctw.dll. Bt I 'm having the problem of Access point ??So the function still does not appear within formla staff in crystal report... Please, I m really blocked and need your help Thanks in advance -- modified at 14:01 Wednesday 7th December, 2005

[Russell Jones]

My guess here, and it's only a guess is that you have specified a windows application as the project output type. This is in the General section of the common properties tab. If you change the output type to Class library and then close and reopen the properties window (apply is not enough for some reason) You should be able to change the value of register for com interop. BTW do you know that you will have to have the .net framework installed on any client that you want to run this function?

[achrafus]

thanks for your answer, I checked the project output it's set to class library. I think the problem comes from the fact that when trying to register the dll using regsvr32 it does not find DLLRegisterServer entry point. the msg I got is mydll.dll was correctly loaded But the DLLRegisterServer entry point was not found. Unable to register within windows. (I got the msg in french , I think this is the eng version.) I didn't know that I'll need to have the .net framework installed on my clients