I'm currently researching two aproaches:

1. Try Find some report designer from Sourceforge and distribute it with my vfp app.

2. Create Text Report listener or modify a Fabio/John frx2word utility to create a correct text report from a FRX file.

Where I can find information about Seagate Analysis ?


>I am not sure whether there are any free tools, apart from the ones you mention. My own version, as you saw, is designed for the programmer, and not for the end-user.
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>You can put up with the report designer, but it is difficult to allign objects correctly in text mode.
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>The designers of Crystal Reports also provide, or provided, a free tool called Seagate Analysis, IIRC. This allows the end-user to create his own reports, and even datacubes. An impressive tool, but I didn't try to do any text-mode stuff, and don't know whether it is supported.
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>Perhaps you can design your own report designer; something simple to program might not have a VISUAL designer like VFP, but a number of fields which the user can fill in. Then, you might use my class, or another similar tool, to do the actual printing. Actually, from what I saw briefly, I think the DOSPRINT3 class is more oriented towards creating templates, so perhaps it fulfills your needs better - but you will probably still have to do some additional programming to give the end-user the capability to create custom reports.
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>>I need report designer which allows end users to modify text reports.
>>Those reports will output data to POS printers, creating plain ASCII text
>>output.
>>I need to define title, summary, detail and group bands.
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>>I tried the following:
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>>1. VFP REPORT ... TO ASCII output is incorrect
>>2. There is no FoxPro DOS installed to create text based reports
>>3. Hilmar Zonneveld TextPrint class does not have report designer
>>4. Victor Espina DOSPRINT3 class does not have report designer
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>>Any idea how to desing/modify Text based reports easily ?
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>>Is it possible to use some free report builder for this ?