Creating a report designer ?

[captain_skank]

The source of Arctic Reports is not available as far as I know. It's SROD's baby and he 'used' to sell it as commercial software.

PDF'ing reports with Arctic was it's only real drawback ( although SROD did publish a workaround )

I happened to use it a lot, but with SROD not being about these days i've been mostly using the excellent PurePDF lib ( http://www.purebasicpower.de/ ) and had been giving serious consideration to creating a GUI report designer utilising this, however as I use it for business reports it also needs to able to export to different formats xls, csv, txt etc.

The thing putting me off doing this at the moment is it's another 3rd part library that could dissappear overnight.

Now with the addition of the SVG library to PB i've been thinking about it again - the only drawback being no native PDF capability on windows.

[collectordave]

Hi captain_skank

The thing putting me off doing this at the moment is it's another 3rd part library that could dissappear overnight.

My intention is not to create a third party library but to have the code on the forum as open source for all to use. This would mean that all forum users can contribute and eventually there would be no need for a third party library. Of course this would mean that the report designer code is incorporated into your own programme, the only updates required after that would be on a new release of Pure Basic but of course you would be controlling your own source code. The other benefit is that after a new release many on the forum could help update the code.

Ideas for the report output, not the report definition, can then easily include PDF,txt,CSV etc as well as a print routine built into the module itself.

The report designer does also rely on some other smaller modules written by myself and I will be publishing these on the forum.

Hope this helps

collectordave

[collectordave]

Hi All

The report designer and printer is now reaching an Alpha test phase so will publish the code very soon.

I will link to the new post from here.

[the.weavster]

Anybody looking for a report designer might find this interesting.

[collectordave]

The free version it appears can only preview print reports created by the pro version?

Take a quick look at thishttp://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 12&t=65229 simple as yet.

[the.weavster]

The free version it appears can only preview print reports created by the pro version?

Yes, the developer needs Valentina Studio Pro to design the report templates. That's not the only task Valentina Studio Pro can perform though, it's a schema editor for various databases and has a visual query builder too.

In order to view/print/export the reports the end user only needs Valentina Studio Free which is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.