[Lazarus] LazReport

[Lee Jenkins]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> 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.

Agreed.  FastReport is an excellent reporting tool and I would like very much to 
get it to work, but it appears that remains to be seen as of now.

> 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 :-)
> 

Well that give me an excuse to upgrade, but I am fairly satisfied with FR 3 
right now. :)

I can imagine that is must be a fairly daunting task!

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Warm Regards,

Lee

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