Re: Question about RLIB

Michiel Betel <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:03:14 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.text.rlib.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Talking about new features...

Are you planning on adding more font support? Having only courier is a 
bit limiting

Michiel

Bob Doan wrote:
>> what's the plan about deploying the PDF compression?
>> I thought about something like introducing a new
>> top-level section:
>>     
>
> It's an output parameter.. Set "compress" to true (pdf.c 278)
>
>   
>> <GlobalOptions>
>>     <GlobalOption name="compression" value="'true'"/>
>> </Globals>
>>
>> For text and HTML output, it will be a no-op for now or
>> maybe txt.gz and CHM format could also be produced.
>> There may be a need for other global options, too.
>>     
>
> Right now only PDF looks at it.
>
>   
>> And another idea with another top-level section:
>>
>> <Queries>
>>   <Query name="'query1'">select * from table1;</Query>
>>   <Query name="'query2'">select * from table2;</Query>
>> </Queries>
>>     
>
>
> Yea.. We should really do this at some point.  It's probably an easy
> feature enhancement.
>
>   
>> <Report query="'query1'">
>> ...
>> </Report>
>>
>> It would be useful for the long term (read: self-contained
>> reports, visual report editor)  to be able to specify
>> the queries in the report XML, sometimes you don't
>> need to modify the report's query at all. Two new
>> API calls can be also added, to get and set the query.
>> (E.g. Crystal Reports has this feature.)
>> Although I wonder about the trickier cases, where the
>> "</Query>" literal occurs inside a string constant
>> within the SQL query.
>>     
>
> Yup ;)
>
> Thanks!
>
> - bob
>
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