Somebody with experience, using R&R - reportwriter ?

[ukoenig]

Hello,

R&R reportwriter used in old Clippertimes
has grown to a new Solution, supports 64 Bit as well.
There is a standalone EXE and function-calls from a DLL.
Inside a report, You can do fieldcalculations with related DBF's
like the old Clipper CARET.

New :
R&R ReportWorks® is a data access and reporting tool
that lets users design professional, meaningful reports quickly and easily for data
stored in Xbase (DBF) and SQL databases.
Xbase databases are those created by Microsoft Visual FoxPro, Visual dBASE,
CA Visual Objects, Clipper and other compatible products.
SQL databases are databases accessible via ODBC (Open Database Connectivity),
such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Btrieve, etc.

Any experience with the new Release ?

Best Regards
Uwe

[nnicanor]

I using R&R for long time ago it's a good tool for xBase, Sql version are not easy to work than xbase version , i just migrated my new applications to FastReport.

Regards,

[Gale FORd]

We use Reportworks. Have not tried it with SQL but still use the runtime files for automated reports.

[ukoenig]

Thank You very much for the response,

I bought a licence long time ago during Clipper-programming.
Starting with Fivewin, I used CARET ( because 16 bit, not possible anymore ).
Reading in the forum about the different REPORT-GENERATORS,
I still don't know, what could be the best to use ( also to be supported in the future )
FASTREPORT, seems not to be a solution ( not supported anymore ) for the future.
Another product < LIST & LABEL > could be used as well, but is very expensive and
overloaded with functions, I don't need.
I want to do field-calculations INSIDE the report, not to prepare
everything inside the Application for printing.

Gale, did You use any functions from the included DLL ?
Maybe some samples ?

Best Regards
Uwe

[Silvio.Falconi]

I had R&R for dos when i used ca-clipper 2.5
when I init with on windows i hoped fwh have a report designer...

[Otto]

Hello Uwe,
>FASTREPORT, seems not to be a solution
do you have new information?
Best regards,
Otto

[Silvio.Falconi]

the man builded the class for fast report is dead...

[Otto]

Silvio,
FastReport is there and working well (super) with FWH current version also in WINDOWS 8.
As WINDOWS 8 will be the standard for the next coming years like Windows 95 has been there will not be any problem for you for the next 15 years.

Best regards,
Otto

[ukoenig]

Otto,

Nothing against Fastreport !

The reason of my R&R - question :
A customer of mine used R&R for a long time.
Now he bought some new computers and updated his old R&R-version to the new Release.
The new R&R offers many new functions and he asked me for some help, to convert to the
new release and using the DLL-function-calls.
The update-price from a old version is OK.

I can communicate my experience during my work, changing to the new Version if there is any interrest.

Best Regards
Uwe

[Silvio.Falconi]

Otto,
I need to create Italian commercial document as DDT or Fatture and these are more different from germany or english commercial document
I need a teach for the first document with fastreport as I wrote you in private email

[Gale FORd]

I have not used the dll. We use the runtime and pass it the parameter dbf file on the command line.

[ukoenig]

Gale,
no problem, as soon my customer wil have his update, I will start to translate the functions
A sample :

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// choosePrinter
BOOL FAR PASCAL choosePrinter(int hReport, LPSTR lpszPrinter, int prSize, LPSTR lpszPort, int poSize)

//hReport Report handle.
//lpszPrinter Address of buffer in which to return selected printer name.
//prSize Size of buffer pointed to by lpszPrinter.
//lpszPort Address of buffer in which to return selected printer port.
//poSize Size of buffer pointed to by lpszPort.
//Return Value

The choosePrinter function returns zero if an error occurs. To obtain more information about the error use getErrorInfo.
Description
Use choosePrinter to allow the user to interactively select a new printer and printer port. The name of the printer selected by the user will be returned in the buffer specified by lpszPrinter to the extent allowed by prSize. The name of the printer port selected by the user will be returned in the buffer specified by lpszPort to the extent allowed by poSize.
 

Best Regards
Uwe

[Gale FORd]

You can do all that in xHarbour and pass the printer or export to rtf using the parameter file.