FastReport 4 VCL is an add-on component that allows your application to generate reports quickly and efficiently. FastReport provides all the necessary tools to develop reports, including a visual report designer, a reporting core, and a preview window. It can be used in the Borland Delphi 4-2007 and Borland C++Builder 4-2007 environments.
Key Features:
- Band-oriented report generator.
- Report can consist of several design pages.
- Visual report designer supports zooming, undo/redo, guidelines, rulers.
- Fully customisable interface with MS Office look.
- Report can contain datasets. Thus you can not only use application defined datasets, but connect to any databases and use tables and queries inside a report.
- Debugging tools.
- Visual query builder. You don’t have to learn the SQL language to create a complex query.
- Many supported formats (PDF, RTF, XLS, XML, HTML, JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, TXT, CSV, Open Document Format).
- Web-reporting components. You can browse a report using only a web browser.
- Report inheritance (supported both file-based inheritance and visual form inheritance used in Delphi/C++Builder).
- Rich printing abilities.
- Access to any kind of data, from an array to a DB table.
- Cross-tab reports allow to build a table with complex row and column headers from a single dataset, table or a query.
- Vertical bands allow you to build a table-type report with variable number of table columns.
- Charts. Full support of all features of TeeChart Pro library.
- Multi-functional “Text” object can display one or more text lines.
- UNICODE support.
- Extendable FastReport architecture allows you to create your own objects, export filters, functions, wizards, DB engines.
- Drill-down reports.
- Interactive reports.
Benefits of using FastReport 4 VCL:
Quick and Compact:
- High operating speed with low system requirements. FastReport 4 VCL can even be installed on older, slower computers.
- The installation size is just 7 MB.
Powerful and Flexible:
- Includes a wide range of objects used in reports e.g. text, images, charts, barcodes and data-formatting tools. Everything necessary to create professional looking reports.
- Has a built-in dialog designer to request parameters before running a report.
- A macro-language interpreter handles non-standard data and allows you to create even the most complex reports. (Four languages are available: C++Script, PascalScript, BasicScript, JScript).
- You can create special reports for dot-matrix printers and print them quickly, which is important for meeting corporate applications.
Great Value:
- Basic visual designer is included with the license for FastReport 4 VCL.
