I know I just got frustrated fighting with Crystal since about 1996 or 1997. Just spent too much money for something that wasn't working well at the time and didn't read my native data without a lot of extra setup. Making commercial products that go to a lot of places is a pain to get the setup right with the end users even if using Wise or InstallShield. And yes, Crystal is a Very Good tool for what it does.


>You don't really expect Crystal to support every data format that comes along do you? IMO, Crystal does things the right
>way by supporting data access standards rather than every application's proprietary format. Think about your tool. If you
>were to market it as a generic developer tool, what data formats would you support?

>As for integration with VFP, every version of Crystal has gotten better. The integration now is totally seamless. You can
>now use XML or pass an ADO recordset to the RDC.