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 test has finished or why there was no news about it. The link still exists but I was not able to download the stack anymore. (http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/contributors/mcrg.htm).
Maybe Tuviah is listening and can give us more information?
Till
Am Freitag den, 12. April 2002, um 15:23, schrieb 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, 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.
However, since Rev can communicate with external databases, the reporting tools for those databases are available to Rev.
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