switch between Delphi and Fastreport

KiteKite
edited 5:34AM in FastReport 4.0
I 'm new to Fastreports.

I'm using Delphi 2010 with Rave reports but downloaded the Fastreport demo to test and see if I can change everything over to Fastreports before I bay it.

(Everything is defferrent)
1. my first problem is when I opened fastreports from my delphi project I can't go back to Delphi to change somethings, I have to close fastereports first before I can work in Delphi, fastreports looks like a modal form of delphi.

2. I tried the rave to fastreport import but my reports is very weird.

3. The other thing that I used successfully in Rave is the sections that is not available in fastreports(subreport)

4. I'm getting to the inheritance

5. The other thing is that I have a .fr3 file for every report and have to distribute lots of files with the exe file when there is a update

If someone can please assist with some of these issues or is it only in the demo, I first need to know if fastreport is for me and if I can change the reports (of a live system) over to fastreports before I buy it.

Regards
Kite

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  • technisofttechnisoft
    edited 5:34AM
    Kite wrote: »
    I 'm new to Fastreports.

    I'm using Delphi 2010 with Rave reports but downloaded the Fastreport demo to test and see if I can change everything over to Fastreports before I bay it.

    (Everything is defferrent)
    1. my first problem is when I opened fastreports from my delphi project I can't go back to Delphi to change somethings, I have to close fastereports first before I can work in Delphi, fastreports looks like a modal form of delphi.

    2. I tried the rave to fastreport import but my reports is very weird.

    3. The other thing that I used successfully in Rave is the sections that is not available in fastreports(subreport)

    4. I'm getting to the inheritance

    5. The other thing is that I have a .fr3 file for every report and have to distribute lots of files with the exe file when there is a update

    If someone can please assist with some of these issues or is it only in the demo, I first need to know if fastreport is for me and if I can change the reports (of a live system) over to fastreports before I buy it.

    Regards
    Kite
    1. The FR window is a modal window. However, if you can start up the application multiple times then you can have multiple FR windows open and swicth between then. What you can't do is to go back to Delphi and change things there and then return to FR without reopening. Honestly don't see why that is necessary and how FR would know what you did in Delphi. FR is tightly integrated with Delpi and does not run as a seperate program.
    2. Conversions are alway tricky.
    3. One cannot expect that everything is handled in the same way in 2 totally different report writers. Even Fr3 was substantially different to Fr2 and they were from the same 'family'.
    4. No comment
    5. You can embed reports in the exe file. StoreInDFM (IIRC) is the frxReport property which controls that.

    Your best bet is to have FR reports in parallel to the Rave reports, and have some selection mechanism as which one is used, until you have finished the conversion.

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