[Gambas-user] Who use gb.report ? (to all gambas users)

[Randall Morgan]

I think the report module is a good thing. You can't always depend on
having the open office suite installed on the machine.
I haven't used reports except for a couple small projects quite a
while ago. If it does not already contain plot abilities I would
like to see some of the same features found in matlibplot (python) for
generating nice plots and graphs. Or a seperate graphing
module added.





On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:44 AM, jm <joem at ...2671...> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 13:11 +0200, Fabien Bodard wrote:
>> This is my query...
>>
>> If you use it tell me what you want to see as improvement... The problems
>> with it.
>>
>> If you are not using it but need printing or generate reports. Tell me why
>> you are not using it.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Fabien Bodard
>
>
> I always wondered what the point of a 'report generator' is when
> you already have an open source office suit such as LibreOffice
> out there.
>
> All you would need to do is auto-pilot LibreOffice from Gambas programs
> and drive it with data generated from inside gambas. Then all the best
> reports in best laid out fonts, spreadsheets, presentations, etc, can be
> auto generated with all the hard work done LibreOffice!!
>
> Doubly better if the files that LibreOffice opens such as spread sheets
> can be processed to read the data from the spread sheet back into
> Gambas.
>
> Since source code is available for LibreOffice, I assume, its just a
> matter of telling LibreOffice developers to make some APIs (if they
> don't exist already) that oil this idea through to completion.
>
> The same idea would work with other software such as gimp to generate
> images, inkscape to generate vector graphics, LibreCAD to generate
> CAD files from Gambas, 3D files with openscad, custom copper shapes in
> KiCAD, Cheese to take photos, something to talk to evolution and
> calendar, etc..
>
> So in short, if you got source code, and you are not beholden on a
> third party to take the next step, then why not work with the other open
> source projects extend gambas to
> directly control some of the more common packages with emphasis on
> the transfer of data back and forth? Report generation is a small and
> outdated idea that we forget it only applies to software that has been
> walled. Everything that a report generator does is a duplication of
> what a word processor already does. And its unlikely to beat it.
>
> If it were down to me, I'd get rid of anything that looks like
> binary data, and make all transfer of data through
> simple text files which can be more readily inspected and debugged.
>
>
>
>
>
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