Aparajita had a product like this that was essentially the A4D engine with most of the HTML stuff stripped out. It does work well (I tried an alpha copy), but A4D does basically the same thing for us and we're already using it for web pages.
I looked at using something like A4D to create a full reporting system, but it really doesn't compete with things like Crystal and Jasper reports. Yes, the idea of using CSS and HTML for the reports is not rocket science, but it is time consuming. A reporting IDE is much more efficient and you can design once, deliver many (screen, html, pdf, excel, text) While we use javascript (like EXT framework) to deliver some basic reports with web interfaces, more complex operations and deliveries are simply more efficiently done through a report IDE. Thanks, Michael Check On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Randy Jaynes<[email protected]> wrote: > Aparajita, > > I like this idea too. SuperReport's scripting abilities have always been > weak. > > While the graphical design interface is nice, it hasn't really been updated > or improved in 10 years or so, and it's seriously showing its age. It's > getting harder and harder to create complex reports with all the twists and > turns you have to do in order to make it work. > > Having the A4D scripting ability to simply run on files would be pretty > awesome. The scripting ability in A4D is second to none. > > And like Alex says, it can be a separate product. > > Thanks, > Randy > > On Aug 18, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Alexander Heintz wrote: > >> Hi Aparajita, >> >> would it be thinkable to have a "lite" Version of A4D to use as a >> scripting engine? >> >> It would only execute A4D text files from the execute file command and >> would not do any sessions, cokies, and all the other fance web server stuff, >> so it really could only be used to execute stand alone a4d files localy. >> >> This could then be used a a superb replacemnt for SRP, FootRunner and >> would facilitat the creation of truly great 4D aplications. >> >> At the same time it could offer you new marktet oportunities. >> >> What do you think? >> >> cheers, >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Active4D-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev >> Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ > > _______________________________________________ > Active4D-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ > _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
