I've been doing HTML reporting for years using several tools, but things definitely are not as tight once you lose control - browsers still do not all render the same.
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Andrew Kluthe <and...@ctech.me> wrote: > I've been pretty happy generating html reports for some of the big LC > applications I've done. Use something like bootstrap that has a good print > style sheet. Some JS powered charting that prints nice. I would open in > external browser in my older applications but I wonder if things wouldn't > work nicely in the new CEF browser. > > Once things stabilize a bit more, I think we could do tons of standalone > web applications this with it similar to electron or node-webkit. For > example: a customer has an online catalog powered mostly by javascript on > the front end talking to data providers on the server side. We could reuse > most of the javascript in the CEF browser and refactor the bits that serve > the data to serve from the livecode side from a sqlite database. If I had a > little more confidence in some of the newer strains of livecode I'd have > done it like that instead of in electron. > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:33 PM Lynn Fredricks < > lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > > > > Quartam Reports is pure LiveCode, and as such it has been a > > > great tool for use on all major desktop platforms. > > > > It can be extremely useful to have an add-on that's entirely native. The > > downside to that is that, from the vendor perspective, you can capture > only > > a fraction of the users of that development environment. Id imagine if 5% > > of > > all LiveCode users paid the fee for QR, then it would be generating > buckets > > of revenue to power new versions. > > > > There are only a few platforms that can really support ONLY native > reports > > on a single platform and feed the developer. Even Crystal Reports > supports > > multiple development environments. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Lynn Fredricks > > Paradigma Software > > http://www.paradigmasoft.com > > > > Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
