Re: [DUG] Delphi XE2 and Crystal reports

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:04:58 -0800

Hi Robo

Thanks, no its not what I wanted to hear!  Surprised the delphi .net wrapper does not work for this. 

Anyway I have another question you might be able to answer.  Crystal 2013 lists Windows support as 7.1 and above.  This will be for the designer, any idea of whether the runtime still works on XP?  We email SAP but they couldn't answer the question and pointed us back to the web site (which doesn't say).  They don't seem overly keen to sell us their product!

We have no problem with 7+ for report work but our clients often have XP machines (or Vista) floating around and we can't drop support for them.

Thanks
Rob

 On 28/01/2014 9:23 p.m., Robo wrote:
Might not be what you want to hear, similar situation as you several years ago, we ended up writing a small .NET app to run the reports (using Delphi Prism, which is also now dead :rolleyes:).

We had hundreds of Crystal reports as well, we tested each one and upgraded them to latest version, and they're still being used now.

Robo


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Robert Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi

We are long time Crystal users and have hundreds of reports in Crystal
8.5 format.  This is a very old version of Crystal which we are looking
at updating.  Unfortunately Crystal ditched the ActiveX / Com runtime
components, which we currently use, in version 11.5 (Crystal XI R2).
The only supported runtime is now .net.  My understanding is that we
should be able to import the .net libraries and access Crystal using it
from Delphi XE2.  However I have read that this is not easily possible.

Does anyone have any experience with running versions of Crystal newer
than XI R2 with Delphi (XE2)?

Thanks
Rob

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