Reports - one more time

[Till Bandi]

I miss Reports Datapro very much!
I did hope that Tuviah Snyders  MetaCard Report Generator would allow us 
to have similar possibilities. At the time I tried it, but it did not 
work for me and since then I hoped there would be a new version. But 
there was never any further information if the beta test has finished or 
why there was no news about it. The link still exists but I was not able 
to download the stack anymore. 
(http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/contributors/mcrg.htm).
Maybe Tuviah is listening and can give us more information?

Till

Am Freitag den, 12. April 2002, um 15:23, schrieb Brad Allen:

> 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.
>
> However, since Rev can communicate with external databases, the 
> reporting tools for those databases are available to Rev.
>
>
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