Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 22:03, Carl Karsten wrote:
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>
>>Has anyone considered the similarities of a GUI report designer to a GUI
>>form designer? I have a feeling life will be easier if the 2 had a common
>>base, not like VFP land where 2 different camps dreamed up 2 starting
>>points, and the two evolved with 0.0 overlap.
>
>
> I don't see the link, at least from the layout side of things. The Form/Class
> Designer will involve heavy use of sizers, which simply aren't used in
> reporting, which has much more fixed size requirements. But since Paul hasn't
> done anything on the visual designer side of reporting, perhaps he'll be able
> to adapt the class designer to also lay out reports.
There are indeed some similarities, but I think it is only at the most
superficial level. Units of measure are different, screens aren't
generally fixed to specific "page sizes", etc. However, both have the
concept of "properties" so I'm hoping to share the property sheet, as
well as some of the editors.
And for the record, I jammed on the visual designer, but got waylayed.
It's coming. ;)
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