Fwd: [Mono-list] Reporting Engine

[Harry Holt]

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From: Harry Holt <harryholt at gmail.com>
Date: May 27, 2005 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Reporting Engine
To: Chris Turchin <chris at turchin.net>


It works for me, too, although some of the samples don't work on IIS
(due to the use of libgda, but that can be avoided).  I didn't notice
the PInvoke issue myself, because I'm only doing web-based projects.

More work without having a GUI tool for designing the reports, but
this, but it's still a viable alternative.  I'm going to explore the
use of this for our mono version.

Thanks for the pointer.

... HH

On 5/27/05, Chris Turchin <chris at turchin.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Regarding Report.NET:
>
> It ran with mono with a minor change or two: The embedded resources were
> not where they were expected (after just importing the csproj file into
> monodevelop and just compiling - could have fixed this by using:
> '-resource:FILE[,ID]     Embed FILE as a resource' at the command line i
> am sure...).
>
> It does not do anything with PInvoke, though the RT class does have a
> few platform-specific "convenience functions" (printPDF, viewPDF) which
> read the registry to get the path to acroread on win32. With a couple of
> changes even this could work. I got ViewPDF() working by just replacing
> the whole read registry thing with:
>
> private static String _acroPath = "acroread" ;
>
> and a bit of PlatformID magic to do The Right Thing on win32...
>
> All the samples from the webpage ran without modification (except the
> FontTest.cs, which seems to have trouble with unicode characters: it
> renders the pdf, but the glyphs are wrong for characters like 'μ' which
> renders 'Âμ').
>
> Seems like an interesting project...
>
> Regards,
> --chris
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 07:54 -0700, Joe Audette wrote:
> > I haven't tried this but I book marked it a while ago
> > planning to check it out. Its a .NET reporting engine
> > that renders to pdf.
> >
> > http://report.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Joe Audette
> >
> > --- Harry Holt <harryholt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It appears that no one does (unless they responded
> > > off-list).  We've
> > > been using "ActiveReports" from DataDynamics, which
> > > is a nice .NET
> > > reporting tool.  We've discovered that it uses some
> > > native Win32 calls
> > > (kernel and gdi) for several of the modules
> > > (extensively for the PDF
> > > reports, for font rendering, apparently), so we have
> > > not been able to
> > > deploy that application to mono (which we must do).
> > >
> > > I have not been able to find anything appropriate
> > > that will work for
> > > us, so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
> > >
> > > Thx... HH
> > >
> > > On 5/25/05, Farzad Battiwalla <farzadb82 at cox.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know of a good reporting engine for
> > > Mono ? - I'm
> > > > looking for something similar to Jasper Reports
> > > for Java, but on Dot
> > > > Net. I'd also like it to be cross-platform,
> > > however, running on Linux is
> > > > more important.
> > > >
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