In defense of the original poster, I understood perfectly what he was asking, and the responses he received showed others did, too. Pretty much everyone who has heard of FileMaker and Microsoft Office, two extremely well-known products each available on the Macintosh for well over a decade, as well as heard of them in the same sentence, has most likely heard comparisons between Access and FileMaker (as well as heard comments about why Microsoft hasn't ported Access to the Mac), and can probably surmise they operate similarly.
In case you're still not informed about what a report writer tool is, it's typically a subsystem of a software product or a standalone product that allows an end-user to develop reports to be used in an application. Comments by others on the forum have given suggestions that an end-user might just as effectively develop an HTML template (a technology many people on the list understand and may even have used) that the original poster could utilize to produce such a report, while others have suggested utilizing Interface Builder to design one (a technology that people on the list typically get maligned if they don't use). If you are still confused about what a report writer is, try Google. And, getting back to Microsoft Office, keep in mind that a number of its components, which are line-of-business applications, originated on the Macintosh. On 01/15/2009 6:50 PM, "Chris Hanson" <c...@me.com> wrote: > On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Jon C. Munson II wrote: > >> I could be missing the obvious, however, my question is whether a >> report >> writer tool (like Crystal Reports or MS Access, by way of example) >> exists >> for Cocoa? > > In the future, it might make it easier to get help if you explain more > specifically what you're looking for. > > Developers who have been working on the Mac platform exclusively for > quite a while may have no idea how Crystal Reports or MS Access work. > The Mac world has also historically been much less focused on Line-of- > Business applications than the Windows world, so what "report writer > tools" do for the software developer may not be readily apparent to > many experienced Mac developers who might otherwise have suggestions. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
