reporting

[Mike Kerner]

I've been doing HTML reporting for years using several tools, but things
definitely are not as tight once you lose control - browsers still do not
all render the same.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Andrew Kluthe <andrew at ctech.me> wrote:

> I've been pretty happy generating html reports for some of the big LC
> applications I've done. Use something like bootstrap that has a good print
> style sheet. Some JS powered charting that prints nice. I would open in
> external browser in my older applications but I wonder if things wouldn't
> work nicely in the new CEF browser.
>
> Once things stabilize a bit more, I think we could do tons of standalone
> web applications this with it similar to electron or node-webkit. For
> example: a customer has an online catalog powered mostly by javascript on
> the front end talking to data providers on the server side. We could reuse
> most of the javascript in the CEF browser and refactor the bits that serve
> the data to serve from the livecode side from a sqlite database. If I had a
> little more confidence in some of the newer strains of livecode I'd have
> done it like that instead of in electron.
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:33 PM Lynn Fredricks <
> lfredricks at proactive-intl.com> wrote:
>
> > > Quartam Reports is pure LiveCode, and as such it has been a
> > > great tool for use on all major desktop platforms.
> >
> > It can be extremely useful to have an add-on that's entirely native. The
> > downside to that is that, from the vendor perspective, you can capture
> only
> > a fraction of the users of that development environment. Id imagine if 5%
> > of
> > all LiveCode users paid the fee for QR, then it would be generating
> buckets
> > of revenue to power new versions.
> >
> > There are only a few platforms that can really support ONLY native
> reports
> > on a single platform and feed the developer. Even Crystal Reports
> supports
> > multiple development environments.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Lynn Fredricks
> > Paradigma Software
> > http://www.paradigmasoft.com
> >
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> >
> >
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