RE: [DUG]: QUICK REPORTS ONGOING BUGS

[Patrick Dunford]

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Heinz
Sent: Monday, 17 May 1999 15:15
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: RE: [DUG]: QUICK REPORTS ONGOING BUGS

Hi, all.

 

Tony wrote:

What is going to happen with this heep of dog dung.

 

QR version 3 with Delphi 4 is the most buggy heep of rubish I have ever come accross. Surly one can expect it to be reasonably clean a year ofter release?

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 Tony, I have a version of the QR 2 codebase that has been patched (by me)and works with Delphi 4. That at least avoids all the bugs they added in QR 3. Provided you have a source license for the full QR, I don't see any legal reason why I couldn't supply you with a copy of that. Drop me a line if you think it might help.  

 

[PD] You can download QR2 for D4 free of charge, from the website (Standard edition - no source or editor component). I sort of laughed when they  released QR1.1 for D3 (are they trying to tell us something), I couldn't get it to work even after unchecking the QR2 standard packages in D3 so I flagged that. But it does improve on 1.1 in some critical areas such as columns. One of my clients has one very big report that amounts to a couple of _pages_ per record and about 500 records, which 1.1a can handle. I haven't tried any of the export filters or any of the other things in QR2 much. 

 

[PD] Did your patching include anything in the conversion -  I  need to convert that big 1.1 report to QR2 and it's a huge job to lay the pages out again -  the so called conversion in 2 resets all the fields and shapes to default sizes losing all the formatting that took hours to do originally. Spent a few hours at the weekend looking at the code in D2 (easier to recompile a couple of units than a whole package) but couldn't figure it out. 

What can we do to get these Vikings of their A's and get something happening about it?

 

Got your ears on Annie - Ray? 

Knowing how these bundling deals are sometimes done, the problem may be that Borland/Inprise paid a lump-sum licensing fee to the QuSoft people rather than a per-copy royalty style license. As such, the QuSoft people have no real incentive to fix the hard problems (which require a significant redesign and reworking IMO) since there is no more money in it for them. 

 

[PD] And it's cheap, they are only charging $99 for the full package. RPP costs a heap more and presumably it reflects a more professional standard. As far as I could ever tell there has only ever been one guy coding QR at Qusoft.

 

 

TTFN,

  Paul.

 

 

 

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Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ
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