Designing reports in Cocoa apps

2008-10-18 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi All, Wondering if any one has ideas on writing reporting features for Cocoa apps? We are desinging a billing system and have the need for developing summary reports (printable). Thanks. -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles) __

Re: Designing reports in Cocoa apps

2008-10-18 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Devraj Mukherjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wondering if any one has ideas on writing reporting features for Cocoa apps? Well, only you can determine how to collect the data you need for the report. Once you've done that, some developers use a WebView. This has

Re: Designing reports in Cocoa apps

2008-10-19 Thread René v Amerongen
Hi, About, On 19 okt 2008, at 01:51, Kyle Sluder wrote: This method is also usually unusable for any sort of charting or other non-traditional reporting. What I did, to test something, was using NSimage to create an image. Save the representation, as jpeg f.e, in tmp and then read it back

Re: Designing reports in Cocoa apps

2008-10-19 Thread Bill Cheeseman
on 2008-10-18 7:51 PM, Kyle Sluder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Others go the traditional route and write a custom NSView that they > print. You have to draw it yourself, but this gives you far more > control -- particularly useful when you want to know about the paper > size and orientation, or