1. Even though customers ask us to write custom reports, in theory they
can make their own. Its a selling feature as more and more of them hire
stupid consultants.
2. Ever report thingy has its own problems - better the devil you know.
3. Report engines are fashionable beasts - we like consistency.
4. We started when there was no choice. CR was the best alternative,
almost every product appeared to be using it. Its a major major job to
convert *several hundred* reports in a way that Clients do not complain
about a single item. Also the resources are better deployed elsewhere.
Final remark - I dont know anyone that is a fan of CR. That should tell
you that at least we are honest and practical about it :-)
Jeremy Coulter wrote:
I have a question about this.
Why do people use Crystal reports then have the whole overhead of dlls
qwerky delphi units instead of products such as ReportBuilder, Rave, or
FastReports which are 1. native Delphi code and 2. are just as good as
Crystal? An 3. no dlls.
Its just an interest qustion than mean to start a flaming session. I have
not used Crystal and Delphi since like Dephi 5 and that was only because I
had to so we didn't have 2 sets of identical reports to maintain.
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Rohit Gupta
Sent: 7 March 2009 10:19
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] CRViewer.dll from delphi
One of my employees used it and got our app working. The only reason we
have not migrated is that
Before we could just copy the CR dlls to the users fatclients or TS
sessions. Now we have to use an MSI installer to install it on ever
workstation (automatically). Its not a goer yet.
I think it was easy enough, just use the new vcl and tiny changes in the
calling procedure. If you have specific problems, I can ask her.
Neven MacEwan wrote:
Hi
I'm playing with the CRViewer.dll for Crystal 11 has anyone used this?,
Unlike any other OCX ive used
this seems to be full of IUnknowns!
TIA
Neven
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