Re: Reports - one more time

2002-04-12 Thread Brad Allen
>Unfortunately, report generation was a tiny sub-nice market in the >already small market of Oops. That's an unfortunate typo. I meant to say "sub-niche", not "sub-nice." -- ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mai

Re: Reports - one more time

2002-04-12 Thread Till Bandi
I miss Reports Datapro very much! I did hope that Tuviah Snyders MetaCard Report Generator would allow us to have similar possibilities. At the time I tried it, but it did not work for me and since then I hoped there would be a new version. But there was never any further information if the beta

Re: Reports - one more time

2002-04-12 Thread yves COPPE
>Nine to Five Software made a fantastic report generating tool for >HyperCard, called Reports Datapro. I don't know if they're still in >business, but a tool similar to that would be great for Revolution. > >Reports had a section-oriented layout tool, with sections for break >summaries, sub-sum

Re: Reports - one more time

2002-04-12 Thread Brad Allen
Nine to Five Software made a fantastic report generating tool for HyperCard, called Reports Datapro. I don't know if they're still in business, but a tool similar to that would be great for Revolution. Reports had a section-oriented layout tool, with sections for break summaries, sub-summaries

Re: Reports - one more time

2002-04-11 Thread David Vaughan
Sarah I wasn't the one to ask the question but thanks. This will be useful. regards David On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 10:11 , Sarah Reichelt wrote: > I have done a bit of work on such a display and here are the techniques > I used: > > A single field with tab-stops (turn on the vertical gri

Re: Reports - one more time

2002-04-11 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I have done a bit of work on such a display and here are the techniques I used: A single field with tab-stops (turn on the vertical grid so you can see what's happening) Shorten any text that is longer than the tab-stops: I do this using a hidden field with the same text properties and

Re: Reports - one more time

2002-04-11 Thread David Vaughan
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 08:11 , Barry Levine wrote: > I posted this question once before but only received one response > (which I have not tried yet). How are you handling the printing of > reports through Revolution? By way of explanation for non-response, I'm not. Right now, if I want

Reports - one more time

2002-04-11 Thread Barry Levine
I posted this question once before but only received one response (which I have not tried yet). How are you handling the printing of reports through Revolution? Do you put them into a field with tabs to separate columns of numbers/text? How about multiple fields lined up parallel to each other