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- QRDESIGN 0.84
- (C) Copyright 1996 by Timo Hartmann, Oststr. 38, 57074 Siegen, GERMANY
- email: thartmannx@aol.com - FAX +49-271-6609328 - CIS 100753,1266
-
- What is QRDesign:
- ------------------
- QRDesign is a runtime reportdesigner for QuickReport.
- With QRDesign the user of your program can create his own reports or modify
- existing ones, save this reports and load them.
- QRDesign compiles into your application like any other form, no external
- program is needed.
- Read QRDESIGN.WRI for more information.
-
- INSTALLATION:
- -------------
-
- Short:
- - you must have QuickReport 1.0d installed
- - run QRDesign's INSTALL.EXE
- - install QRDREG.PAS into your componenent palette
-
- Prior to installing QRDesign you must have QuickReport 1.0d installed.
- You need exactly this version of QuickReport! If you do not have it you can
- get them from QSD at http://www.qsd.no (the update to Quickreport 1.0d for
- Delphi 2 is free). The shareware version of QuickReport is also available
- on my home page http://members.aol.com/thartmannx for download.
-
- When a new version of QuickReport is released you will also find a new
- version of QRDesign on my homepage. I know this version number problem is
- annoying, but when registering you will receive full sourcecode for
- QRDesign, so you can recompile it yourself whenever a new version of
- QuickReport is released.
-
- To install QRDesign just copy all files (INSTALL.EXE, INSTALL.DAT, ...) to
- a temporary directory and run INSTALL.EXE. INSTALL is a little DOS-program
- which will ask you for the version of Delphi and the version of QuickReport
- you are using. The appropriate files will then be copied to a directory of
- your choice.
- INSTALL will make no modifications to your system and will not copy any
- files into your windows directory.
-
- After this you will find a file QRDREG.PAS in the QRDesign directory.
- Please install this file into Delphis component palette. Delphi will
- recompile its VCL-Library, and if everything went okay you will have
- a new page on your component palette called "QRDESIGN".
-
- Also a component named TLanguageSwitcher will be installed on the component
- palette page "Language". This component is used by QRDesign to switch
- between english and german language forms.
-
- IF THIS GIVES YOU AN ERROR MESSAGE:
- If you get the message "Unit version mismatch" (german: "Unitversionen
- stimmen nicht ueberein") then you probably have changed something in
- QUICKREP.PAS or another VCL file. In this case Delphi tries to recompile
- QRDESIGN.PAS, but this is not possible without the sourcecode. You can
- try to reinstall the original QUICKREP.DCU. If you can not get QRDESIGN
- to work you can download an already compiled demo program at
- http://members.aol.com/thartmannx/ on the QRDesign-page. This demo lets
- you try out all features of QRDesign. On registering you will receive
- full sourcecode for QRDesign, so there will not be any problem installing
- or compiling QRDesign with any version of QuickReport or with changed
- VCL files (e.g. if you are using Apollo instead of the BDE).
-
- INSTALLING TEMPLATES:
- After successful installation of QRDesign it is useful to install the
- two forms ReportF.* and ReportDB.* as form templates. This is done with
- Delphi 1 by first opening ReportF.Pas and its form. Then choose the
- menuitem "Options", "Gallery". Now choose the tab "Form Templates" and
- press the "Add" button. Use the title "QRD with fixed databases" and the
- description "QRDesigner with fixed databases". Hit the OK-button. Do the
- same with ReportDB.Pas, but use the title "QRD editable databases" and
- the description "QRDesigner with editable databases".
- QRDESIGN.HLP explains why there are two different templates.
-
- Open QRDDEMO.DPR for a sample application of QRDesign.
-