[Lazarus] Reading .fr3 files from LazReports

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Bogusław Brandys wrote:

>> 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.

That is definitely an option.

Michael.