Re: Antw: New gda-report's DTD

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
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> Rodrigo Moya escribió:
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> > Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
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> > > Rodrigo Moya escribió:
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> > > > > Well, thanks but at the moment i'm making tests with libglade and i have
> > > > > readed this IBM's tutorial a few months ago. I think as you, this should
> > > > > be the best option to implement the Report viewer and of course the
> > > > > Report designer.
> > > > >
> > > > but, I don't understand why you want libglade for. The output of the
> > > > report should be rendered with gnome-print IMO, which has a preview
> > > > option, and which you can directly send to the printer, whereas a form
> > > > in glade format could be quite difficult to print.
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> > > Well, i think that if we use libglade to show the report, we colud do things
> > > like searching, etc.
> > >
> > > I need study it.
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> > but, how are you going to print a libglade form? And most important, how
> > do you make the separation between pages? and all the calculations
> > needed for page orientation, font, etc?
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> Well, you are right, but i don't like the gnome-print preview as it's now. It's
> like a Bitmap, a BIG bitmap, then the refresh, zoom etc. it's not very speedy.
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yes, I know, you're right, but I suppose it will be improved. And, if
I'm not wrong, it lets you save the preview to a file.

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> > > > And about the report designer, well, it could be an option, but is it
> > > > worthy?
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> > >
> > > I don't know what worthy mean.
> > >
> > wothy = merece la pena
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> Well, i think like you, i prefere make a client to show the report (then, when
> it's finished, we could make applications that call our widget to show a report,
> then we can do a tool which graphicaly we could make the .report to pass to the
> report view widget.
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yes, that's what I've in mind myself.