Well, if you have a look to my project, at http://reports.sourceforge.net, you'll see all the features it has (The version on cvs has more features yet). The only feature I am not committed to do, even in Qt, is the graphic designer :( I am decided to por it to GTK, but I need support from the GTK developers. When I say porting it to GTK, I mean that I am going to abandon the development on Qt. Here is a list of the main features that are fully implemented: - OO design that allows the use of any kind of input or output. - Current inputs: SQL, CSV, XML, Cached report, user defined - Current outputs: X, HTML, Text, XML, Open Office, Cached report, user defined - Definition of the report layout in XML. Unlimited number of objects, grouping levels and subsections. - The measures of the objects can be given in mm, cm, inches, dots and percentages, and can be mixed. - Comprehensive set of properties: Styles, fonts, colors, borders, margins, mask, formats, background images, alignment, adjustment, etc. - Summary values: sums, counts, etc., both as total and running. - Formulae that allow to change the properties of any object and perform calculations on the value of the objects. In this moment, I am working in a trhee pass processing on the report to handle the use of summary values at the top of the group sections, and to be able to use expressions like page 1 of 20. I have realized that in order to port it to GTK, I only need a very simple XML parser, a Date class and some classes to access databases. Here is where I need the suppor from this list. Regards! On Wednesday 04 May 2005 05:41, Daniel Kasak wrote: > 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... -- Tengo que cambiar mi firma --------------------------------------------- Francisco Santiago Capel Torres santiagocapel@xxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
