To All
Interesting to see the posts in the Spanish and English forums. It appears that FastReport seems to be Spanish favorite and TReport for the English posts.. personally I create all my reports with the simple TPrint class... I know it is a lot more work ( brutal at times ) , but if I want a pen, I create a pen, if I want color .. I add color .. if I have to crunch fonts, I calculate the printer horizontal resolution and place my text at the proper place... and yes, it can get difficult to create a form and place data on it that will print the same if it is a deskjet or laserjet printer.
I realize the convenience of a Report Form and setting Fonts, groups and totals .. and Visual Studio has a very strong form creator that can match just about any 'hard copy' form a company might use.
For me, I like the convenience of incorporating all my code, forms, reports and icons into a single monolithic .EXE.
Working for SC State government with over 3k users and over 100 servers, I have seen many commercially purchased software products that have to be deployed with setup clients, forms, icons etc .. and all the headaches that accompany ( successful and error free ) installs.
I have also seen where exposed folders that contain the above external files can be ( accidentally ) deleted and in a network environment, need special user privileges to run properly.
For me, I do not want my day to be consumed by technical support calls on errant setups or network privileges .. that does not mean I am against Report Writers or generators .. I am just speaking from my 20 years experience in a very large user setting .. the simpler, the better.
Rick Lipkin