I understood his message to mean that he didn't want to use windows-only apps/code. I'm sure he'll port it to those systems, and if he doesn't, it's on sourceforge, so you could compile it yourself ;).<div>
<br></div><div>I think a useful format for reports would be an image or an excel file, but working with excel files is never easy.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Phil Hess <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:macpgmr@fastermac.net">macpgmr@fastermac.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Terry,<br>
<br>
I've found that generating reports as raw RTF and then viewing them with your user's word processor is a good cross-platform solution and lets you use the full power of RTF, which is supported by all word processors. Tools are here:<br>
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<a href="http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/XDev/XDevStatus.html#RTF" target="_blank">http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/XDev/XDevStatus.html#RTF</a><br>
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On Mac it would be a lot easier since all you have to do is provide a print mechanism and the OS X Print dialog automatically gives you print preview and save to PDF, but the other platforms don't have that.<br>
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Why limit your app to the teeny tiny world of Linux tinkerers? Don't you think the Win/Mac communities could benefit from your app? It's not really that difficult to maintain a single code base that supports Delphi on Windows and Lazarus on all platforms.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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-Phil<br>
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----- "Terry A. Haimann" <terry@HaimannOnline.com> wrote:<br>
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> For what it is worth I have created a project on SourceForge<br>
> (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/messier/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/messier/</a>) with my Astronomy Program.<br>
><br>
> It is a basic Observing Planning and Logging Program. It is of course<br>
><br>
> written in Lazarus (I converted it from Delphi) and got most of the<br>
> Algorithyms from "Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator" By Peter<br>
> Duffet-Smith.<br>
><br>
> There are two major things I would like to add to it:<br>
><br>
> 1. Using a report generator instead of Printer.Canvas.TextOut<br>
> Statements.<br>
> 2. I would like to merge it with Planetarium Program. I could do this<br>
><br>
> with Cartes Du Ciel 2.76, but not the newer SkyChart and since my<br>
> primary audience is going to be Linux Users, I really don't want to<br>
> use<br>
> a Windows App.<br>
><br>
> Terry<br>
><br>
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