Re: Report Writer to Replace Fast-Report 3?

Rob,

FR3 is an EXCELLENT product but its growing pains have caused me so many
headaches over the last year that I am looking to replace it with something
else for all my new development and a couple of my existing products. I just
can't afford the down time anymore with changes in incremental versions that
break 50% of my reports that use scripting. This has happened to me several
times since I rewrote ALL of my reports to use FR 3 and going from FR 2.x to
FR3 was suppose to be the LAST time I had this problem.

Best Regards,

Shane

"Rob McDonell" <arkangles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:431ac19d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Pierre wrote:
>> I found the lack of a prescribed and practical migration path from 2.5x
>> to 3.0 especially annoying. Without going over old ground, it left me in
>> an embarrasing and 'expensive to fix' situation with many of my users.
>
> I am about to dump QR, and was seriously looking at FastReport. It seemed
> to have what I needed, including an end user report designer for a
> reasonable price.
>
> What I thought I'd do was rewrite my reports into FreeReport, and then if
> that turned out okay, upgrade to FastReport to get the extra features. Now
> after this discussion, I'm wary that this will be two rewrites instead of
> one. Got any advice on this?
>
> --Rob.


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