Re: Best Approach?
I had the same dilemma about generating reports. What I ended up going with
was to export the data into a XML file, which uses XSL transformation to
render the data.
What my program does is write the XML file out, and loaded it into a
CHtmlView in my application. Done.
The great thing about it is WYSIWYG. The same formating for the screen
worked for printing.
AliR.
"saywhat" <no@fuk.no> wrote in message news:AiM5g.85$XH3.26@fe02.lga...
Hi all, thanks for all the great advice I've gotten here. Every day my
MFC
skills improve! Long way to go yet though...
I have an database app I created. It uses a form view with a list and
tree
control, everything works well so far.
I want to have a way to generate a printable report, though. How best to
implement that? IOW, I could have a dialog w/ a rich edit cntrol for the
user to see the report, but I was wonder if there's a better way to do
this.
I don't really need editing functionality, just a way to look at and print
the report, and possibly save it. How practical would it be to just
create
another View?
Hope I'm asking this clearly. TIA - again!!!!
b
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