Charts, will it ever be easy?

We have a team of 10 Delphi Developers.

Not one of us like Steema TChart. I would easily say, we all hate it with a passion.

Its clunky, overly complex, and trying to design a chart is like pulling your own teeth out.

Will FastReports ever have its own system to create charts? The basics. Bars, line, pie, blah.

We don't use them in reports, as trying to do them in the report editor is down right awful.

No way to sugar coat it.

All the higher ups are goofy in the head for Tableau reporting. Which is nice for what it is, but I can't tie it directly into our programs like we can with FastReports. But it can make interactive charts in the reports. Which is a hot thing right now.

The only thing we've been limited by is charts when it comes to FastReports.

We try to use TChart but end up scrapping it every time, its just to darn clunky to use.

The designer and the overly complex nature of TChart is just to much to handle.

Doing simple changes or setting basic things is too much for anyone to handle. Not a fault of FastReports per say, but it would be nice to have a native charting system finally built in after all these years.

/end rant

Comments

  • No, we don't plan this. Steema TeeChart is easy to use with default settings (no any customization)

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