[Lazarus] LazReport

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 13 May 2008, 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.

I am also a FastReport user:
FreeReport is just an early FastReport 2.x version, so if it worked in 
FastReport 2.x, it should work in FreeReport/lazReport.

It's of course possible that during porting, some bugs were introduced.

The Fastreport People told me (back in October) that they planned to port
FastReport 4 to Lazarus in Q1 of this year. Since I haven't seen anything
yet, I assume that some problems popped up. I'm not altogether surprised 
because it's not an easy task, given the complexity of FastReport :-)

Michael.