Vivid Report is a library of visual components for C++ Builder and Delphi, which provides creating reports of almost any complexity.
Vivid Report provides perfect guaranteed printing quality and excellent productivity of designing. It is created on new original technology, which we call "VCL2" or "alive components".
Vivid Report realizes the following concept of the report design. The report contains several pages. The report page can contain a child report or universal bands that provide placing of data images on a page. Bands link with data controllers that are data containers and manage the data display in bands.
Realizing this concept in Vivid Report allows to refuse use of the specialized report designers, provide best possible WYSIWYG and multiple data using.
Vivid Report 3.0 introduces the following new features and enhancements.
• Full Unicode support have been introduced.
• Bi-directional modes support have been introduced.
• Export of reports have been introduced. The export to the HTML, EMF, BMP, GIF, JPEG formats is supported.
• Two new data types (String list and composite text) have been introduced. The composite text allows to create a rich text from a set of the Static data and the data of the databases.
• Strings data types got a new properties, which allow to reserve a Minimal extending for strings and to set a placement of strings on this space.
• Grid component got new properties and enhancements. The cells blocks in bands can now be aligned horizontally and vertically. New style of rows allows to make a footer rows and columns. The rows filter have been introduced. It allows to create a master-detail tables.
• Actions that work with vivid report have been introduced. These actions allow to make a print, export, preview and print setup of the target vivid report.
• Editors of hierarchical collections have been unifized.
