Features of ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX/COM
Design Environment
- Easy to use Office-like designer environment
- New! Access Reports import wizard
- New! Crystal Reports import wizard
- New! VBScript and JScript events and expressions and a built-in syntax-highlighting script editor
- New! ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM 1.0 upsizer. Includes data bound text, checkbox, image, OLE objects, rich text and subreports ActiveX control host. Use 3rd party controls or your own custom controls in your reports
- New! Barcode Control New! Report bookmark and internet hyperlinks
- New! Controls Style property editor based on standard CSS syntax Pro! Royalty-free end-user designer control
Data Access
- Supports DAO, RDO, ADO
- New! Support for XML data sources and XPath, XSL expressions
- Supports unbound data from arrays, collections, and other data providers
- Binds to recordsets and resultsets for maximum flexibility and connection efficiency
Architecture
- Full runtime access to objects, data sources and binding, ability to add controls/sections dynamically at runtime to modify the report behavior
- Full control over printer jobs, properties and ouput devices
- Hosts ActiveX components and OLE objects
Deployment
- Reports can be compiled for maximum security and speed
- New! Report layouts can be distributed as XML based reort layout (RPX files) (application host independent)
- Enhanced! Java viewer based on JDK 1.3 with printing support
- New! TIFF export in addition to Text, RTF, Excel, PDF and HTML export filters
- Enhanced! PDF export supports table of contents bookmarks and embedded fonts
ActiveX Viewer
- New! Multipage thumbnails
- New! Split Views
- New! Ruler
- New! Text Search