[Lazarus] [ISSUE] FCL-Web and LazReport

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:52 AM, silvioprog <silvioprog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/1/17 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Sven Barth wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Am 17.01.2013 08:52, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some time ago, I started a new reporting engine exactly for this
>>>>>> reason.
>>>>>>
>>>>> And how far is your progress with that? Which reminds me that I should
>>>>> finally test the new database search provided in packages... -.-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is currently dormant; I had finished the looping logic, if memory
>>>> serves well.
>>>>
>>>> Michael.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've been thinking of porting jsPDF for Free Pascal:
>>>
>>> http://jspdf.com
>>>
>>> But, using inheritance, something like (a pseudo example):
>>>
>>> VLabel.Text := 'Hello';
>>> VLabel.Font.Style := [fsBold];
>>> VMemo.Lines.Add('Line 1');
>>> VMemo.Lines.Add('Line 2');
>>> VMemo.Font.Align := faJustify;
>>> ...
>>> pdf.LoadFromJSON(<JSON>); // or pdf.LoadFromDataSet
>>> pdf.AutoPaginate := True;
>>> pdf.AddPage;
>>> pdf.AddObject(VLabel);
>>> pdf.AddObject(VMemo);
>>> pdf.AddObject(VImage);
>>> pdf.Print('print.pdf'); // or pdf.Print to print as DataURI
>>
>>
>> Why jsPDF and no FPDF (https://github.com/jepafi/Free-JPDF-Pascal)?
>>
>> Marcos Douglas
>> PS: or my fork https://github.com/mdbs99/Free-JPDF-Pascal
>
>
> Why did you fork this ?

Because the author do not have time to work in this project at moment
(I sent a fix for a memleak and until now wasn't merged).
I proposed to him codify a class following the FPHP stylish but he
won't change the current code.

Marcos Douglas