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Application design philosophy

edited April 2011 in General
Delphi XE

In an application with 15 or so reports would it be better to put them all
on one form or spread them out on multipule forms or even 1 to 1.

Thanks...

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  • edited April 2011
    Hi Robert,

    This depends on the type of application you are building. If you take a
    look at our main reports demo located in the \Demos\1. Reports\...
    directory, you can see that by placing each report on a separate form it
    is easier to keep each demo organized and each component separated. On
    the other hand, you have multiple form resources you need to keep track of.

    The most efficient way to design a reporting application that uses
    multiple report designs is to have only one TppReport object and load
    multiple Report templates on the fly. The template information can be
    saved in file format or inside a database table. Data access can be
    saved down with each template (using Dade) and event handler code can be
    saved as well (using RAP).


    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
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