I understood his message to mean that he didn't want to use windows-only apps/code. I'm sure he'll port it to those systems, and if he doesn't, it's on sourceforge, so you could compile it yourself ;).
I think a useful format for reports would be an image or an excel file, but working with excel files is never easy. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Phil Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > Terry, > > I've found that generating reports as raw RTF and then viewing them with > your user's word processor is a good cross-platform solution and lets you > use the full power of RTF, which is supported by all word processors. Tools > are here: > > http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/XDev/XDevStatus.html#RTF > > On Mac it would be a lot easier since all you have to do is provide a print > mechanism and the OS X Print dialog automatically gives you print preview > and save to PDF, but the other platforms don't have that. > > Why limit your app to the teeny tiny world of Linux tinkerers? Don't you > think the Win/Mac communities could benefit from your app? It's not really > that difficult to maintain a single code base that supports Delphi on > Windows and Lazarus on all platforms. > > Thanks. > > -Phil > > > > ----- "Terry A. Haimann" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For what it is worth I have created a project on SourceForge > > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/messier/) with my Astronomy Program. > > > > It is a basic Observing Planning and Logging Program. It is of course > > > > written in Lazarus (I converted it from Delphi) and got most of the > > Algorithyms from "Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator" By Peter > > Duffet-Smith. > > > > There are two major things I would like to add to it: > > > > 1. Using a report generator instead of Printer.Canvas.TextOut > > Statements. > > 2. I would like to merge it with Planetarium Program. I could do this > > > > with Cartes Du Ciel 2.76, but not the newer SkyChart and since my > > primary audience is going to be Linux Users, I really don't want to > > use > > a Windows App. > > > > Terry > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Lazarus mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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