>Yes.
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>The xml file that contains the layout has coordinates for all objects ( bands, columns etc...) on the report. In the report header xml file we send over the paper settings. It has two modes, you can design reports and store them ( like old frx's ) or you can define a class inheriting from their report class and build your report in code at runtime like we do.
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>You can set attributes for each object and also raise and capture events on each object. You can use this to conditionally bold, underline, skip repeated values, etc... on any text/object at runtime. We use the events functionality all through out of report code to enhance our reports beyond what we could do in old Fox frx style reports.
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>We really like it because once you have your report defined and loaded the preview window ( if you choose that option ) has all sorts of options you can use from the preview. The end users can resize the report in the window and see what it will layout as in a different style before they print. Also it has export options to export the report to different formats ( pdf, word doc, csv etc... ), we had to write that code ourselves in Fox.
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>As I said we really like it. It took us a couple months to really understand what we had at our control. We have been using it for 2 years now. We have the same .exe file that is our display for our fox product and our .net product since we send xml it is very encapsulated. Their support is also very good. They have maintenance releases about every 2 months average.
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>They also have other controls we bought, a grid control, a tree control, and a pivot grid for making summary reports.


Thanks. That was a necessary evil for my apps, they needed the ability for the end user to modify on the fly and save off that new version of report. Finance companies change contracts way to often and they got upset at a fee for ME to make little changes. So back in the dos days I put a hook into the reporting system of my FP app.

I bet there is a demo time period for this report writer. I wonder how long it would take me to get something ready for the ability to actually send output to the printer? couple of weeks??

Thanks for the feedback. I'll start looking into this again.