HI. Just to add my 2 cents worth. I have tried most reporting tools out
there, and in the end, I favor Report Builder.
We use Crystal at work for our VB app. that needs reporting, but the 850 odd
kb the CR pas file is a real turn off.
I brought Quick Reports, and have the latest, but still, it cant beat Report
Builder, IMHO
Jeremy Coulter
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Subject: Re: [DUG]: Report component/s
Just to add some more information to this, we tried RAVE at the end of
1999 to the beginning of 2000. Although it was reasonably good, once
you got over the different approach to report development, once we
started exporting stuff it got really messy. It didn't support many
export formats, and those that it did support looked nothing like the
report on-screen (even the TEXT and HTML ones!)
Regards,
Bevan
Neven MacEwan wrote:
>
> Sergei
>
> I've used Crystal for quite a while now and has the advantage that
> as a erport designer it has wide acceptance, but the downsides are
> seagate are very windows centric (linux turns up little in their plans,
tho
> I did find
> a German Co that had pure Java 3rd part CR engine) I think M$ might have a
> hand up their backside
> and the VCL Component is becoming increasingly fat as more amd more
> functionality is rolled into
> the CRPE32.DLL and the delphi wrapper exposes it, The latest beta added
900K
> to your project
> I corresponded with Frank Zimmerman the writer about this and he was
having
> trouble separating
> the run and design features into two components (mind you he also did not
> know
> how to implement an interface). Currently for these reasons (mainly the
> windows part)
> I'm looking for a better report writer have you considered nevronas rave?
> The
> best part of crystal is that the runtime engine is free to distribute
(cause
> they derive their revenue from
> sales of the designer) Other Report Engines try to derive their revenue
from
> runtime deployment
> (which I always find distasteful)
>
> HTH
>
> Neven
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sergei Stenkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:52 PM
> Subject: [DUG]: Report component/s
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been asked to look for some reporting component/s.
> >
> > Does someone know of a reliable ones I could evaluate?
> >
> > It should :
> > be able to report to text file, Excel, printer
> > have a user interface for layout design purposes
> > It would be good If it can "talk" to an Oracle database.
> >
> > I've started evaluating a Report Builder from Digital Metaphors but it
> seems
> > that it cannot produce multiple pages across when there are more columns
> > then can fit on one page. And it can't export to Excel. I might be
totally
> > wrong here and would like to get a few different opinions ("anything
> goes").
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Sergei Stenkov
> >
>
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