Reports - one more time

[yves COPPE]

>Nine to Five Software made a fantastic report generating tool for 
>HyperCard, called Reports Datapro. I don't know if they're still in 
>business, but a tool similar to that would be great for Revolution.
>
>Reports had a section-oriented layout tool, with sections for break 
>summaries, sub-summaries, grand summaries, headers, footers, and a 
>main body. It had a sort and select tool which acted on a HyperCard 
>stack in a way similar to flat file databases. The report generation 
>could be controlled by scripts, and as the report generated, 
>messages flowed up the message hierarchy to provide strong scripted 
>control of report generation. It was a nice tool.
>
>Unfortunately, report generation was a tiny sub-nice market in the 
>already small market of HyperCard developers. I doubt Nine to Five 
>software made much money on their product. If anyone wanted to 
>create a similar product for Revolution, they'd face a similar 
>financial obstacle.
>

I'd like to say that royal software made something more easier and 
wider in use than datapro and the name was : printreport. That was a 
brilliant external. I dream of something like that for revolution...
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Greetings.

Yves COPPE

Email : yvescoppe at skynet.be