I have been invited to give a presentation of my Report Engine to the Chicago FoxPro User Group and the Dallas/Fort Worth User Group this week.
On Tuesday February 4th, I will be speaking at the at the Chicago User Group meeting at Harris Associates located at 2 N. LaSalle, Suite 500 in Chicago at 5:15PM. Rick Borup is also giving a presentation at the same meeting on Inno Setup and IS Tools.
On Thursday February 6th, I will be speaking at the Dallas Fort Worth User Group meeting. For more information visit their website at:
http://www.dfwfox.org.
To thank the User Groups for inviting me, I will be raffling off one Professional License of the Mind's Eye Report Engine at each User Group meeting as well as handing out a Discount Coupon good for $50 towards the purchase of either a Professional or Standard Version License of the Report Engine. You have to be there to win or pick up a discount coupon! I also extended the introductory price on the Professional License of the Report Engine until Feb. 8th, 2003. The new STANDARD Version is priced at $295 per developer. The Standard version DOES NOT include PDF Output, Charting or Barcodes. It is meant to be used as a REPORT PREVIEW replacement for your VFP apps where you might want some of the following features but don't have a need for PDF Export, Charting or Barcodes:
- ZOOM to 100,000%
- Print Multiple Pages Per Page 2, 4 or 8 pages per page
- Append Multiple Reports into a Single Report Preview Window which includes reports of Different Orientations and Page Sizes
- Find Feature that can Mark All Occurances of a Text String while in the Preview
- Easily handle PAGE X OF Y dynamically calculated as you add more pages to the report without making multiple passes
- Easily place a Watermark on your Report by simply setting the WatermarkText Property and the WatermarkRotationAngle Property no more hacking the FRX and stretching graphics tricks
- Rotate Text on a Report Page
- Easily hide Toolbar Buttons or the entire Toolbar
- Easily run your reports in a Top Level Form
- No longer do you need to work on Hiding the Print Window with a cryptic FRX Name
- Name your Print Jobs whatever you want with a Property
and more...
For more information go to
http://www.mindseyeinc.com/ReportEngineI will be posting the new release of the Mind's Eye Report Engine this evening which includes both versions of the Report Engine Control. The STANDARD Version Control is called: MindsEyeReportEngineStd1.OCX. The PROFESSIONAL Version Control is called: MindsEyeReportEnginePro1.OCX. The Setup program also includes more VFP Demos for you to play with and learn how to use the control along with more improvements made to both the VFP Report Engine and ActiveX portions of the Report Engine. Anyone who purchases a Professional License can use and distribute both the Professional and Standard versions of the control.
I hope both meetings have a really good turn out and I hope to see you there!
