Michel Albert wrote: > > What I meant was that one should be able to "draw" a report template. > Basically a graphical user interface for RML in this case. I > personally would opt for writing RML or whatever code myself. But it's > impossible to convice my boss. The dialog usually goes like this: > > "So, did you find a click-and-play editor for reports" - "Not yet, but > anyway, writing code is more flexible and easier to manage later on" - > "Hmmm... but it's code!" - "Sure, but you only write it once for one > report, you can easily re-use code-snippets, modifying the code does > not require one additional program, you just use your text-editor of > choice,..." - "Okay,.... but it's CODE!".... > > and this goes on forever. My boss seems to be allergic to writing code > by hand. Which is very frustrating. I'm happy that Qt has the > "designer", although it's very easy to code the GUI's too ;) >
Probably worth pointing out that a click-and-point editor for reports can't be both fully mimetic (as a GUI designer may be) and practical. FWIW OpenOffice 2.3 added something of the sort. The kind of tools I'd expect to lead me to roadblocks. Now OpenOffice *does* allow scripting with python; but the couple times I looked into it, the specs&docs on the scripting interface scared me completly. Good luck, BB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
