[flexcoders] Re: Need Suggestions for Reporting In Flex Applications.

2009-04-20 Thread valdhor
There are any number of ways of exporting data. In my case I use PHP extensively to generate excel spreadsheets (Google for code on how to do this. If you can't find anything, I can post the code I use). For Flex, a couple of things I know of off the top of my head... AlivePDF -

[flexcoders] Re: Need Suggestions for Reporting In Flex Applications.

2009-04-20 Thread Tony Obermeit
If I generate a PDF on the server side, how do I display that within a flex canvas, is there an mx:PDFReader sort of component? If I generate an excel document on the server side, how do I display that within a flex canvas? Tony Re: Need Suggestions for Reporting In Flex

[flexcoders] Re: Need Suggestions for Reporting In Flex Applications.

2009-04-20 Thread valdhor
I have no idea. I stream the resultant PDF or Excel file to the user so they can open it in the native application. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tony Obermeit t...@... wrote: If I generate a PDF on the server side, how do I display that within a flex canvas, is there an mx:PDFReader

[flexcoders] Re: Need Suggestions for Reporting In Flex Applications.

2009-04-20 Thread raja_s_patil
I have no idea. I stream the resultant PDF or Excel file to the user so they can open it in the native application. Well purpose of xls sheets is for further analysis so help of native application is necessary, And as far as pdf are concerned Firefox can show them in another tab I dont

[flexcoders] Re: Need Suggestions for Reporting In Flex Applications.

2009-04-18 Thread raja_s_patil
Thanks Dean, I have no idea about the dot matrix printers. But generally I do all my reporting using PHP. At the end of the day flex is in a browser and you are going to be limited by that. I'm sure PHP can produce a format that would work well for a dot matrix printer. If not, you could