>Koos,
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>>We considered Crystal reports, and though it is a great tool, it is too expensive to supply with all our apps.
>>It is also a separate program which we do not like.
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>Crystal Reports comes with a free runtime library which does not reqiure licenses when you distribute it with your application. You'll only need licences for each (concurrent ?) developer. Personally I've got just one licence and about 5 commercial distributions which use it.
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>About the seperate program: Yes the report designer is a seperate program, but your users will not need this one. You can use the generated reports in VFP very seemlessly in your VFP application: Your users would not notice that they're using Crystal Reports (Except it ise far more powerfull than the VFP Report writer).
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>As for the install, You'll need to distribute a buch of DLLs and register one of two. The ones to include depend on the strategy you use, the export formats, etc..
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>I think it would be wise to reconsider Crystal Reports.....
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>Walter,

Walter,

What about data access. I understand that the VFOX tables can not be opened directly from Crystal Reports (as the old FP2.6 ,tables). Do you need to install an ODBC driver also ?


Koos.