Re: Report Generator Suggestions
I forgot to mention that HTML was my first choice as well. However, I have
to duplicate a bunch of reports and some of them are a bit crowded. I
duplicated one packed report and, while it printed okay in IE, FireFox
chopped off the right side. In addition, I don't see any good way to force a
header and footer onto each page when printing HTML.
So while this is a good approach, I think I'm just going to need a bit more
control for my current project.
Thanks.
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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com
"AliR (VC++ MVP)" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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When I was faced with creating reports that were well formatted, and
dynamic, I chose to go with HTML.
My report tool was basically a CHtmlView that would load up XML files
which would in turn get transformed to HTML using XSLT.
The nice thing about it was that I didn't have to worry about any display
problems, since the html browser would handle all the formatting and
printing for me!
Here is a screen shot of my report tool:
http://www.learnstar.com/AliR/report1.jpg
http://www.learnstar.com/AliR/report2.jpg
http://www.learnstar.com/AliR/report3.jpg
Worked out great for me. I think I reduced the work of 6 months into 1
month!
AliR.
"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com> wrote in message
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I'm writing an MFC application that needs a ton of reports based on data
stored in SQLite.
There's not enough money for me to hand code all these reports in C++.
I've found free libraries such as Quick Print on CodeProject and they've
seemed buggy and poorly written.
I'm just wondering if others have dealt with this. The only thing I know
about Crystal Reports is that I hated it back many years ago when it was
included with VB classic. I won't rule out a package like this but would
prefer something smaller and easier to distribute. Also, I have no idea
if Crystal Reports could be made to work with SQLite.
Just looking for suggestions.
Thanks!
Jonathan