Arctic reports (reporting system - Windows)

srod · Post by **srod** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:52 am

Online user-manual available to all.

Hi,

I have now made the Arctic reports online manual available to all through the nxSoftware site. It makes sense to open it up in this way.

The manual is in tatters at the moment whilst I rewrite it following the first alpha release of the Pyrex visual report designer, so you will need to be patient (and forgiving!)

Digital Wargames · Post by **Digital Wargames** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:25 pm

The manual is in tatters

I told you to get those cats declawed

srod · Post by **srod** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:43 pm

Digital Wargames wrote:
The manual is in tatters
I told you to get those cats declawed

Consider the aforementioned cats, -dog food!

Here kitty kitty...

JCV · Post by **JCV** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:10 am

Hi srod,

Ive downloaded the pyrex installer but it fails to open on Windows 7.

We are sorry, this installer was designed for newer operating systems. Please upgrade your operating system!

I extracted the contents using WinRar.
Seems to work OK here in Win7.

Nice work!

srod · Post by **srod** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:16 am

That sounds like a very strange error for Win 7 to report!

Or is it the installer reporting that error? I have used a 3rd party installer so will need to contact the author if there is a problem.

Yes, as you quickly discovered, you can simply extract the files using WinZIP etc. No registry settings are altered by the installer so you can just run Pyrex as is.

JCV · Post by **JCV** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:22 am

Ops edited my post.

I extracted it using Winrar before posting. It worked fine now.

Your installer didn't detect correctly Win7. The message is from your installer.

srod · Post by **srod** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:23 am

Right, e-mail on it's way to the creator of the installer!

PB · Post by PB » Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:57 pm

This topic has 4667 views -- is that because it says "visual designer" in the title?
Because I find it hard to believe that that many views were due to that many
people interested in a report application...

Marco2007 · Post by **Marco2007** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:29 pm

Announcements from Srod are always worth to be viewed

....also Threads from you.

PB · Post by PB » Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:21 am

> also Threads from you

srod · Post by **srod** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:46 am

PB wrote:This topic has 4667 views -- is that because it says "visual designer" in the title?
Because I find it hard to believe that that many views were due to that many
people interested in a report application...

The words 'visual designer' were only added to the title a few days ago.

Can I ask what the point of your posting was?

PB · Post by PB » Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:02 pm

> Can I ask what the point of your posting was?

Just like I said: that perhaps it had that many views because a lot of people
thought it was about a PureBasic visual designer. In other words, I thought
it proved lots of people are still waiting for a great visual designer to surface.

srod · Post by **srod** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:33 pm

PB wrote:> Can I ask what the point of your posting was?

Just like I said: that perhaps it had that many views because a lot of people
thought it was about a PureBasic visual designer. In other words, I thought
it proved lots of people are still waiting for a great visual designer to surface.

Ahhh, I understand; yes good point. I have changed the title to make it clear that we are talking about a visual report designer and not a form designer.

srod · Post by **srod** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:52 am

Pyrex version 1.0 alpha 3 / nxReport version 1.1 - 19th July 2009.

nxReport version 1.1 adds support for custom controls (advanced users). These controls allow a host application to paint directly to the meta-files underpinning a print and/or preview and can thus add support for (as yet) unsupported 'display elements' (such as charts etc.) As per usual, you can specify whether the nxReport core module should clip the contents of such controls or whether you can paint to the entire page etc. Very useful if I say so myself!

Pyrex 1.0 alpha 3 (visual report designer) of course adds support for the new custom controls. It also fixes quite a number of bugs (both minor and massive!) and adds a few additional menu options. There remains only one more menu option to add before we hit the beta testing stage.

(Please note that I am away for a few days now and so cannot reply to any queries until I return.)

srod · Post by **srod** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:25 am

28th July 2009.

Hi,

the first full version of the Pyrex visual report designer has been released (version 1.0). This follows a quite extensive testing period which threw up lots of bugs and lots of subsequent bug fixes!

This coincides with the release of version 1.2 of the nxReport core module which makes a few minor alterations to the core engine and fixes a bug related to font metrics.

Users are advised to upgrade to this new version of the core nxReport module.

Regards.

Stephen.