No, but that is an interesting idea.
It actually is an excelent idea!
Does the web area have any Javascript or CSS limitations?
No, as it uses WebKit on Mac or IE on Windows, so only these browsers
restrictions apply
For example, how well would it output an advanced ExtJS generated
grid?
Just fine
What about Flash content?
If it works n the browser, it should work here...
Can the web area be printed?
Not any more (In the old LiveWindows PlugIn you could return a Picture
of the web page, that was somehow dropped in V11)
Although you can execute JavaScript on the page, so ma celling the
print command from javascript... Will have to try that one :-)
Cheers,
Alex
-- Brad Perkins
Mehboob Alam wrote:
Anyone considered using the Web Area in v11 as a report display/
preview tool?
sincerely,
mehboob alam
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called
electrons,
that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
- Dave Barry
----- Original Message ----
From: Alexander Heintz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:48:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] A4D as scripting engine, no web server?
I Undestand that, but what I need is a tool so I can create custom
reports for my clients ihtout havng to change the structure, simply
by sending a single file.
Crystal Reports, etc. are incerdible tools, but they require very
skilled hands in order to preoduce usable results, and most of my
users are far away from any of the skills required to use any kind
of sophsticated reporting engine, internal or external.
Most of them think the 4D report editor is far too complicated!
So in my case A4D would be the perfect tool.
Oh, and I charge for report programming :-)
Aparajita had a product like this that was essentially the A4D
engine
with most of the HTML stuff stripped out. It does work well (I
tried
an alpha copy), but A4D does basically the same thing for us and
we're
already using it for web pages.
I looked at using something like A4D to create a full reporting
system, but it really doesn't compete with things like Crystal and
Jasper reports. Yes, the idea of using CSS and HTML for the reports
is not rocket science, but it is time consuming. A reporting IDE is
much more efficient and you can design once, deliver many (screen,
html, pdf, excel, text)
While we use javascript (like EXT framework) to deliver some basic
reports with web interfaces, more complex operations and deliveries
are simply more efficiently done through a report IDE.
Thanks,
Michael Check
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Randy Jaynes<[email protected]
> wrote:
Aparajita,
I like this idea too. SuperReport's scripting abilities have
always been
weak.
While the graphical design interface is nice, it hasn't really
been updated
or improved in 10 years or so, and it's seriously showing its
age. It's
getting harder and harder to create complex reports with all the
twists and
turns you have to do in order to make it work.
Having the A4D scripting ability to simply run on files would be
pretty
awesome. The scripting ability in A4D is second to none.
And like Alex says, it can be a separate product.
Thanks,
Randy
On Aug 18, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Alexander Heintz wrote:
Hi Aparajita,
would it be thinkable to have a "lite" Version of A4D to use as a
scripting engine?
It would only execute A4D text files from the execute file
command and
would not do any sessions, cokies, and all the other fance web
server stuff,
so it really could only be used to execute stand alone a4d files
localy.
This could then be used a a superb replacemnt for SRP,
FootRunner and
would facilitat the creation of truly great 4D aplications.
At the same time it could offer you new marktet oportunities.
What do you think?
cheers,
Alex
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