[Lazarus] LazReport - Feature questions

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Gabor Boros wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Earlier I think will use LazReport for my new project. Implemented Child 
> feature for my needs but now see many other lack of features, problems, 
> reported bugs.
>
> Features for example...
> - Page, Band not have Frames and FillColor properties
> - FillColor not have (Brush.Style) property
> - Stretched not working with Line
> - Frames not have Color, Style, Width properties/side
> - Keep together feature for Band (e.g. Parent and Child(s))
> - In Designer Text object not resized when Font changed
> - On Preview can scroll below the page
> - On Preview Find highlight the whole text of view and only the first 
> occurence
> - Barcode not have Font property
>
> Reported bugs for example...
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19996
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26263
>
> How easy or hard or impossible to implement the above features into 
> LazReport? In the main source not in a fork. Seeing the above features from 
> LazReport POV better for me if create a report engine from scratch which fit 
> my needs? Opinions?

Just an opinion:
I am working with Graeme Geldenhuys to create a reporting engine from scratch.
I think Lazreport's design contains some fundamental flaws, which can only be 
remedied by re-implementing a reporting engine from scratch.

Michael.