>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, grand summaries, headers, footers, and a >main body. It had a sort and select tool which acted on a HyperCard >stack in a way similar to flat file databases. The report generation >could be controlled by scripts, and as the report generated, >messages flowed up the message hierarchy to provide strong scripted >control of report generation. It was a nice tool. > >Unfortunately, report generation was a tiny sub-nice market in the >already small market of HyperCard developers. I doubt Nine to Five >software made much money on their product. If anyone wanted to >create a similar product for Revolution, they'd face a similar >financial obstacle. >
I'd like to say that royal software made something more easier and wider in use than datapro and the name was : printreport. That was a brilliant external. I dream of something like that for revolution... -- Greetings. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution