[Lazarus] LazReport

[Lee Jenkins]

Lee Jenkins wrote:
> Hi all, I've never used Freereport, but I have used FastReport 2.4x through 3.x 
> quite a bit.
> 
> I tried evaluating LazReport a few months ago and had problems with aggregate 
> functions cause AV's and stalling the program.  I thought I'd give it another go 
> with svn rev.15082 and while I won't rule out the fact that I may be doing 
> something wrong, I can't seem to get it to act right for anything but the 
> simplest listing reports without aggregate functions whatsoever.
> 
> Has anyone used this component for any significant reports?  Again, I've never 
> used FreeReport per se, only the commercial FastReport version so I'm assuming 
> that I have at least enough knowledge to build a simple report with aggregates, 
> but my impression thus far is that the component just seems unusable for me.
> 
> Again, I could be just doing something wrong as I'm sure that there were 
> significant changes between the FreeReport version and FastReport 2x or 3x.
> 
> Reporting is significant to an application (well the back office portion) that 
> I'm hoping to write with Lazarus/Freepascal and without a viable solution, I 
> stuck with using Delphi or Visual Studio/Mono.
> 
> Thanks for any feedback.
> 

BTW, I've been playing around with PowerPDF today and it looks pretty capable.

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Warm Regards,

Lee

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