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

[jm]

On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 17:17 -0800, Randall Morgan wrote:
> I think the report module is a good thing. You can't always depend on
> having the open office suite installed on the machine.

You should be able to. Its not pay walled software.
Its free software.
And included in most distros.

> I haven't used reports except for a couple small projects quite a
> while ago. If it does not already contain plot abilities

Libre office has many charting functions, as well as spreadsheets,
presentations and drawing package.

>  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.
> 
> 
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> 
> 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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