Re: CRISTAL REPORTS FROM FORMS45 32BIT

From: Van Nieuwenhuyse <van_nieuwenhuyse_luytens_at_online.be>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 21:17:56 +0100
Message-ID: <77qs9t$bao$1_at_trex.antw.online.be>


Thanks James, it will save me a lot of time.

I'll launch the question again for forms 5.0 (seems to have full ocx support).

>I was told by the people at Seagate that it was impossible to call a
>Crystal report from Forms 4.5 using either OCX or VBX due to
>limitations with the Forms 4.5 Implementation of OCX. I spent a
>considerable amount of time trying to get it to work before receiving
>this news. The trouble was that I always seemed tantalisingly close
>to a solution but in the end it was in vain. I decided to give it up
>and switched to Oracle Reports 2.5 instead. Once I got used to the
>barmy frames idea it wasn't so bad but I did miss the easy formatting
>of Crystal. I understand that some some of those features are now
>present in Reports 3 although I haven't had a chance to try it out
>yet.
>
>James
Received on Sat Jan 16 1999 - 21:17:56 CET

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