RE: [gnome-db] Re: Multiple queries in report stuff

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 15:02, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >>>I know this is quite a lot of work, but then we have something quite
> >>>generic which uses the power of the Query object.
> >>>Tell me what you think about this.
> >>It sounds very nice.  But I don't see how other elements of the report
> >>will be designed, like labels, lines, pictures, pageheaders or pagefooters,
> >>for instance.   It will be another canvas where these elements are designed
> >>graphically, or how are you thinking to do this ?
> >I've always had in mind something like this ->
> >http://www.comm.cc/~gianx/dbreport-gui/dbreport-gui_pre.png for the UI.
> 
> Hey, its dbreport.  That is a nice application, I've used it quite alot (other
> than the fact that it is always seg faulting on me).  That interface is quite
> usable,  but it is a bit bewildering to newbies.  I wasn't aware that dbreport
> offered any method in the UI to do joins, nests, etc... curious to see how you
> would work that in (or maybe my version of dbreport is ancient).

well, I was talking about the separation in sections, more than about
dbreport's features. What I mean is that having something like that,
where you can edit separately the header, footer, detail, etc, of the
report, makes sense.

Of course, once you want to edit the contents of a section, we'll have,
in Mergeant, to allow the inclusion of all the features we are talking
about.

cheers