Reports designers comparison

[Antonio Linares]

I would like to start a new thread comparing the most commonly reports designers in use: FastReport, Crystal Reports, EasyReport, etc...

What is the best and worse of each one ? What is needed and what is extra and not needed.

Tne idea is to develop or complete a reports designer for FWH, so we don't need to include an external one

[Antonio Linares]

If you master one of these, please explain the basic steps to create a simple report and show the visual steps to do, thanks!

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Antonio,

I would like to start a new thread comparing the most commonly reports designers in use: FastReport, Crystal Reports, etc...

What is the best and worse of each one ? What is needed and what is extra and not needed.

Tne idea is to develop or complete a reports designer for FWH, so we don't need to include an external one

TReport is the best!

EMG

[MarcoBoschi]

[Massimo Linossi]

Antonio,

I would like to start a new thread comparing the most commonly reports designers in use: FastReport, Crystal Reports, etc...

What is the best and worse of each one ? What is needed and what is extra and not needed.

Tne idea is to develop or complete a reports designer for FWH, so we don't need to include an external one

TReport is the best!

EMG

And with print functions you can make everything you need. And if you have all the control with your code, the program always "run ok"

[mgsoft]

I am afraid with TReport the user can´t change visually the design of the invoice, for instance.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

I am afraid with TReport the user can´t change visually the design of the invoice, for instance.

I usually use Word for this. It's more powerful than any report designers we can develop, I guess. Anyway, I absolutely don't want to stop this project. Antonio, go on and keep up the good work!

EMG

[Otto]

From a post I made in the xBase Forum
Regards,
Otto

Re: FRAX Update
Beitragvon azzo » Mo, 15. Apr 2013 8:35

Hallo,
hat jemand eine Ahnung wie es mit der Entwicklung von FRAX weiter geht.
mfg
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Re: FRAX Update
Beitragvon Martin Altmann » Mo, 15. Apr 2013 8:45
Moin Otto,
wenn, dann am ehesten Andreas - wenn er das hier liest, wird er sicherlich auch was dazu schreiben.
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Re: FRAX Update
Beitragvon andreas » Mo, 24. Jun 2013 10:41
Ich versuche gerade den Kontakt mit der Frau von Sergej aufzunehmen, um das ganze zu klären! Das kann aber ein paar tage dauern!
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[Rick Lipkin]

To All

Interesting to see the posts in the Spanish and English forums. It appears that FastReport seems to be Spanish favorite and TReport for the English posts.. personally I create all my reports with the simple TPrint class... I know it is a lot more work ( brutal at times ) , but if I want a pen, I create a pen, if I want color .. I add color .. if I have to crunch fonts, I calculate the printer horizontal resolution and place my text at the proper place... and yes, it can get difficult to create a form and place data on it that will print the same if it is a deskjet or laserjet printer.

I realize the convenience of a Report Form and setting Fonts, groups and totals .. and Visual Studio has a very strong form creator that can match just about any 'hard copy' form a company might use.

For me, I like the convenience of incorporating all my code, forms, reports and icons into a single monolithic .EXE.

Working for SC State government with over 3k users and over 100 servers, I have seen many commercially purchased software products that have to be deployed with setup clients, forms, icons etc .. and all the headaches that accompany ( successful and error free ) installs.

I have also seen where exposed folders that contain the above external files can be ( accidentally ) deleted and in a network environment, need special user privileges to run properly.

For me, I do not want my day to be consumed by technical support calls on errant setups or network privileges .. that does not mean I am against Report Writers or generators .. I am just speaking from my 20 years experience in a very large user setting .. the simpler, the better.

Rick Lipkin

[lucasdebeltran]

Rick,

Thank you for sharing your experiece.

I agree with you that the less 3rd party components without source code, the best.

But how do you let your users to customice the invoice design for instance?.

Best regards

[cnavarro]

Rick
Totally agree with you.
I've never been in favor of using external tools to FW, which does not mean there are not very good tools in any aspect that every programmer considered.
But if I agree to create a simple and easy to standardize the creation of reports and grows gradually included in FW.

Lucas
A couple screen enter the position of the elements and images is what many have been used for each user to design their documents and the ability to test a preview.
If the visual design is much better: of course, but done with FWH.

regards

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

What do you think about a GUI wysiswyg designer on top of TReport ?

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Antonio,

Enrico,

What do you think about a GUI wysiswyg designer on top of TReport ?

Sounds good!

EMG

[ShumingWang]

Fastreport is powerfull enougth,and is far award to other reports. It only need a frsysth.dll together with exe ,inlcude print and design engine .
I wish FWH to enhance Gantt.prg to be actual functional.
Regards!
Shuming Wang

[StefanHaupt]

Don´t forget MyReport from Charles. It´s written in fivewein an has a designer.