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

Mon Jan 28 17:40:56 CET 2013

On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 02:02 -0800, Randall Morgan wrote:
> I have a machine running Gambas and using Apache as a proxy. This
> allowed me to develop web apps. This machine does not have open office
> installed and being a web server it wont get it. Not because I would
> have to pay for it, as you said it is free. But cost is not the only
> factor. HD space, processing power, limited ram, etc.. could all be
> factors for not installing an open office suite. Yet, it would be nice
> to generate reports on the machine for things like traffic and pages
> hits, file update times, etc...
> 
> For this reason I think using the report module in Gambas is a better
> approach than scripting a solution in external tools.
> 
> For most of my reporting and charting I currently use python modules.
> Python has great support for reporting and charting and creating most
> reports and charts is pretty simple. I would love to see such
> functionality added to Gambas.

Actually, I'm all for multi-solutions.
A built in report generator, python hooks and Libre Office hooks.

The reason I mention Libreoffice gambas link is that it would
turn gambas into industrial strength product overnight (not that it
isn't already in many a way!)

Imagine for example a gambas program producing a report using
Libreoffice that is a presentation with charts and facts extracted
for the day from a database, and then using something like espeak to
generate the sound file to talk through the presentation.
Such a thing could be mailed to all those interested.
Very little work for gambas developer if LibreOffice could be auto
piloted to do all the work.

> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:37 AM, jm <joem at ...2671...> wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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