Rodrigo Moya wrote: >On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:14 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > > >>Francisco Santiago Capel Torres wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I am porting my report generator done in Qt to GTK. >>>Before going on, could you tell me what other report generators are already >>>done or being done for GTK under the GPL? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>None. >> >> > >there is Papyrus: http://papyrus.treshna.com/ > > Yeah I know papyrus. I actually donated some money to get a couple of issues fixed ( which the author did promptly ). It's quite temperamental. I especially didn't like some of the formatting issues it had. Apparently this was due to it using latex. I found it incredibly difficult and frustrating to get a simple report working, and it offers practically no debugging information if something goes wrong. Plus it's written in C ( I'm using Perl ), so it really was a challenge to get working - even to get it compiled. I *did* like the XML report definition, which I hope to clone in PDF::ReportWriter down the track. I *didn't* like the idea of papyrus performing the query itself - I'd rather be able to pass the data in. And yes I know I can dump the data in a temporary table and the point papyrus at it ... this is what I ended up doing. Also, I'm pretty sure that papyrus didn't support colour. Oh yeah plus there was no GUI for it last time I checked, but the author was working on one. Anyway, the frustrations that latex caused me and the author led me to believe that a better way to go about things was to write something ( in Perl of course ) which renders to Postscript or PDF directly, and now that I've got a proof-of-concept in under 400 lines of code that handles formatting very gracefully, I stand by that view 100% :) I just checked out the homepage of papyrus again. The 'GUI' that it has is only a GUI to select which report to run ... not to define the report. The report definition still has to be edited in XML. Or am I wrong? Not that the XML layout was bad. Like I said, this was one of the best things about papyrus - it's just that the damned formatting didn't follow what I put in the XML - unless I read from the bible backwards while waving a dead chicken in the air... -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: dkasak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx website: http://www.nusconsulting.com.au _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
