Report Engine
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A while ago. I got this assignment from my boss for making one report, the content it self was simple and not hard, but i need to get data that was save scattered from several different table
and the process to get it was very very annoying and frustrated.
GUI(Graphical User Interface)and the process to get it was very very annoying and frustrated.
At My place of work, many Delphi programmer here like to display the report on the form ..and to display it they simply make it by them self they put a lot of effort to it,By using TStringGrid,TTreeView,TListView.I was one lazy bastard :P so i think hard on how to save my finger become shorter by typing those line of syntax just to display that report to the form ..in the end i used "Fast Report" it was one of the best Engine Report i have encounter,imagine how much time we can saved just by using this report engine, after we must think how to build the data alignment,we must also think how to build and designed the GUI. As deadline coming on our tail ...
Shorten the story the report was well done ..and boss was happy with my job :$ hahaha...
For those of you that has accustomed using report engine i bet u guys must familiar with Fast Report, it was straight to the point job, and the fr3 file can be hidden in a DFM file so it will not make any trouble on implementing your program, the report it self can be exported to several file like PDF,XLS even with out Adobe Acrobat or Excel it self installed cool right ? :P
So Friends .., If you guys got experience and want to share about report engine please be my guess to put your comment ..