[Lazarus] Reading .fr3 files from LazReports

[Bogusław Brandys]

Michael Van Canneyt pisze:
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> 
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Lee Jenkins wrote:
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>> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Lee Jenkins wrote:
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>>>> Odd, I asked about this before and was told x was not required.
>>>
>>> Of course it is. The LCL requires X.
>>>
>>
>> My original post on 2010/3/17:
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> the basic unit of lazreport is lr_class:
> 
> unit LR_Class;
> 
> interface
> 
> {$I LR_Vers.inc}
> 
> uses
>   SysUtils, Classes, MaskUtils, Controls, FileUtil, Forms, ComCtrls, 
> Dialogs,
>   Menus, Variants, DB, Graphics, Printers, osPrinters, DOM, XMLRead, 
> XMLConf, LCLType,
>   LCLIntf, TypInfo, LCLProc,{$IFDEF UNIX}SysUtilsAdds,{$ENDIF} LR_View, 
> LR_Pars,
>   LR_Intrp, LR_DSet, LR_DBSet, LR_DBRel, LR_Const;
> 
> As you can see, this includes a lot of the LCL units, and they depend on 
> X through the widgetset.
> 
> Yes, I know about the no_gui widgetset, but if you use that, you'll get 
> a bunch of errors because of missing functionality (pagewidth/height 
> missing or zero, no font info etc.).
> 
> Lazreport inherited from fastreport a totally misplaced dependency on 
> the GUI, unfortunately :/
> 
> For desktop apps, this is perfectly OK. But not for web apps.
> 
> Michael.
> 


You can use a combination of powerpdf with pascal script and a set of 
intermediate helper classes.

Boguslaw