Hello,
A long time wait. But it finally made it:
fpreport has been committed to FPC SVN: packages/fcl-report. It should compile on windows, linux, freebsd and darwin.
Features and architecture are described on:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport
Short highlights:
- Banded report design.
- Streaming to JSON, streaming XML is on TODO.
- Expressions using fpexprpars.
- No GUI Dependencies.
- Unit tested.
- Standard support for Memo (with HTML tags embedded), image, shape and checkbox elements
- Data loop for Dataset, JSON data, collections, lists, event driven.
- Framework for extending with other elements (demo contains polygon).
- Export out of the box to following format:
- Pure HTML.
(TOC pages, optional use of frames, highly configurable)
- Images (with option to generate HTML container pages. Currently requires FreeType on windows)
- PDF (using fcl-pdf)
There are 11 demo reports in a command-line.
There is also a standalone webdemo with the same demos, which shows that fpreport can be used very easily in a headless webserver.
The LCL support has been committed to lazarus: components/fpreport. It contains:
- Preview (export to LCL canvas)
- Printing.
- Design-time support for a report.
- Stand-alone designer, with support for accessing data from: CSV, DBF, SQLDB, JSON File, any REST service that exports JSON. Allows preview and export to all known formats.
- LCL demo program.
Todo:
- XML
- Remove freetype dependency.
- subreport.
- crosstab.
- chart support.
Exporters for FPGUI and AggPas are also available, I expect that Graeme Geldenhuys will commit them soon.
Please remember, this is a first release. There are some known bugs and shortcomings. Feel free to report anything you find in the bugtracker, suggestions are also welcome.
Enjoy,
Michael.
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