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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Kexi: kformdesigner/formeditor
From:       Dag Andersen <danders () get2net ! dk>
Date:       2007-03-02 12:58:25
Message-ID: 200703021358.25302.danders () get2net ! dk
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Fredag 02 marts 2007 11:26 skrev Jaroslaw Staniek:
> Dag Andersen said the following, On 2007-03-02 09:45:
> > Hi, what's the state of the kformdesigner these days?
> > We really need a report designer in kplato, and since our requirements
> > are similar to kexi I wonder if using kformdesigner would be a
> > possibility?
>
> KFormDesigner is used exclusively for creating forms. There were plans to
> extend it to reports (very old initial code that reuses KFormDesigner is in
> koffice/kexi/plugins/reports/) but I guess it KOffice's text engine will be
> reuses before.
I was sort of hoping it was possible to tag along to quickly get a working, 
but-not-perfect solution that eventually would end up with full koffice 
compliance :)
>
> As you know, integer-based calculation of Qt3 can make printouts very
> different comparing to what you can see in the preview/design view.
>
> For more info go to #kexi, it looks like you have to deal with tabular data
> model too, so maybe extending so Kexi's simple printouts can be a solution.
Yes most reports will be tabular.
> But note, all this is still Qt3 code.
Ok, thanks.
-- 
Mvh
Dag Andersen
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