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Thread DBISAM components for fast reports?
Wed, Jan 5 2011 8:51 PMPermanent Link

William Greenley

Is there any way to incorporate fast reports into cbuilder XE with DBISAM? I am migrating an old project in BCB 6 to cbuilder xe. Obviously I need to replace quickreports and fast reports seems like a reasonable replacement that would minimize recoding, but I don't see any way to get it to talk to dbisam tables or queries? Any ideas? Is there a different report writer that would be better, quick reports pro does not currently suport cbuilder xe?
Thanks
Thu, Jan 6 2011 12:17 AMPermanent Link

Gregory Sebastian

Hi William,
I have used Fast Reports with Delphi 2007 but I have no experience with
Cbuilder.  I not exactly sure if it it will be the same in CBuilder but this
is the procedure for Delphi anyway if it helps :

- Drop an frxDBDataset component to your project. (This will be your
pipeline from  the DBISam dataset to the FR Report Engine)
- Set its "Dataset" property to the DBISam Query or Table
- Set the "UserName" property. This is the name of how this dataset will be
referred to in the Report Designer.

Basically thats it. Run your project, expose the Report Designer (via code)
then click the menu option Report | Data in the Designer. You should see the
Dataset under its UserName. If you check it, it will now be available for
use on the current report.

<<that would minimize recoding,>>
I'm not really sure about that Smiley. Yes there is not much coding involved
but I pretty much and to redo each and every report. FR does have a QR -> Fr
converter but it didn't help much. I still ended up redoing all reports from
scratch. Only the the DBISam queries could be reused and ported to  FR in my
case. Good luck with it Smile.

Regards
Gregory Sebastian
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