Delphi Programming Diary - Jitendra Kumar

In my last blog I have explained how to design grouping reports by using Fortes Report and its components. In this blog I will show you how to design a Label report to print Labels in row or column order. And for more detail about Fortes Report please visit  Fortes Report and Components . Here I have created a project which contains simple report to show Customer details in Labels and you can download the sample DB from link  download dbdemos.db . I have saved the DB in C:\Test1 folder. So now lets design Customer Label report with Fortes Report components. 1. First create a project and add a form to the project lets say Unit1 (Form1). 2. Add a TADOConnection component to the form named connmain and set connection string.   ConnectionString = 'Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\test\demos.mdb;Persist Security Info=False'   LoginPrompt = False   Provider = 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' 3. Add a TADOQuery component to ...

Fortes Report A best alternative to Quick Report. It’s totally free and supports latest Delphi versions The Fortes Report is a powerful report generator available as a package of components for Delphi looks very similar to the Quick Report . In Fortes Report, the reports are composed of bands that have specific functions to print data. You define groupings, sublevels and totals simply by hierarchical relationship between bands. Moreover, the Fortes Report has a rich palette of components to print text, image, barcode and export components etc. How to install Fortes Report in Delphi ? For Delphi DX or later versions we can use GetItPackage Manager to install. For lower Delphi version download latest code from following links and follow the steps. https://github.com/fortesinformatica/fortesreport-ce https://sourceforge.net/projects/fortesreport/ Then go to Packages folder and Open frce.dpk package. Then right click compile and Build. Then again right click and...