No, not 'difficult', but maybe not that interesting :0

Oh, sorry, that was rude... What I mean is that PDA apps generally don't do
things that, by their nature, aren't readily accomplished on PDAs. No, that
cuts the PDA a bit too much slack. Instead, developers have adapted to the
limitations of PDAs, and try to reason a different approach.

Some thoughts:
1. Stream your report to a text file on an SD card.
2. Paginate your report, each page to a memo or a record in your own
database.
3. Leave the data in it's raw, and I assume smaller state, and reproduce the
report format on the fly.
4. Compress the report - zlib does ok with fluffy text.
5. Stream to a common DOC format and view with the appropriate reader.
6. Similar to 3 and 4 above, I've written self extracting/viewing report
apps by appending compressed data resources to a common execution resource.

I've done all of the above. It depends on which suits best, given the needs
and limitations.

Hope this helps.

  
-----Original Message-----
From: Vesselin Bontchev
To: Palm Developer Forum
Sent: 3/21/2005 8:43 AM
Subject: re: Exporting reports

Wow, not even a single answer! :-( Was it such a difficult question?

Regards,
Vesselin

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