Thanks Paul - I'll give it a go!
Rodgy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul McNett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dabo Users list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [dabo-users] Report Designer
> Roger Lovelock wrote:
>> I am continuing my exploration of dabo - creating a simple CRUD
>> application with both Class Designer and the AppWizard were successful -
>> and while the AppWizard is interesting (and a good code example to dig
>> into) the Class Designer is more my style!
>> I then went on to explore using py2exe and Inno Setup for application
>> distribution - again a big tick!
>> I am now moving on to look at reporting using the report designer.
>> I've been through Pauls screencasts and all seems pretty straightforward
>> (I have a lot of experience with using Crystal and fyiReportingDesigner).
>> In Pauls example, of course, the initial .rfxml file is created by the
>> AppWizard and the report is invoked from the menu already created by the
>> AppWizard. I plan to call my report from a button and/or a menu item in a
>> Class Designer created app. I guess to do this I have to manually create
>> an initial .rfxml file to work from and include a test cursor (as I don't
>> want to have to run the AppWizard for every report I want to include in
>> my ClassDesigner app) and also code the action for the button to merge
>> the live cursor and the report definition.
>> Obviously I can dig into the AppWizard code to find out how to do
>> these things - but always wanting to use my time efficiently I was
>> wondering if there are any examples of what I want to do already in
>> existence? If so a pointer in the right direction appreciated.
>
> Just open ReportDesigner, and choose File|New. You'll have an empty
> report. Now if
> you like, follow the example of your AppWizard rfxml to add your test data
> to the xml
> directly (see the xml tab). As soon as you do that, go back to the visual
> screen and
> you should see the test cursor in the object tree.
>
> Paul
>
>
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