IBO

rbuser

I'm using IBO Core components for my program. I have looked at the IBO
demo in the end user database section, but it is making use of the
components in some of the other sets in IBObjects and it also requires
you to set up and understand a data dictionary and the report explorer.
I really want a much simpler reporting solution, at least to start. I
may want to add these things down the road.

If one of my tables has a hello world field, how can I most simply show
that on a report? The example has 23 components to set up. How simply
can it be done?

Thanks.

-Jack

nicocizik

Hi Jack,

ReportBuilder is compatable with all TDataset descendents. If you would
like to simply connect your interbase dataset to a report, you just need to
place an IBO table or query, TDataSource object connected to that dataset, a
TppDBPipeline object connected to the datasource, and a TppReport object
connected to the pipeline.

IBOTable --> TDataSource --> TppDBPipeline --> TppReport

I would suggest working through the tutorial applications located in the
\RBuilder\Developer's Guide\... directory before continuing on. These will
give you a basic idea of how to use ReportBuilder and what it is capable of.
Although these tutorials use BDE and Paradox, the same concepts apply to
Interbase and IBO.

--
Regards,

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

rbuser

Thank you, Nico. That did it. I have now hooked up a single TIBOQuery
to my report and can get a single stream of data to do a report from. I
have worked with this kind of arrangement with Crystal.

I am testing FastReports and ReportBuilder for use as my reporting
engine. FastReports is easier to start with than ReportBuilder, I
think, but ReportBuilder has it all over FastReport so far as support is
concerned. Thank you for your quick response.

-Jack