Re: [Fwd: Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-GNOME thoughts]

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Hi there,


> > The biggest problem I could forsee (with that one and this) is the
> > generating of reports. I think they could be done (and thought of apache
> > fo, but I don't know a whole lot about that technology.
> 
> I've used it in production and I like it a lot. The only complaint I
> have is that it doesn't handle characters outside 8859-1 very well.
> Cyrillic didn't work at all, the euro symbol got the wrong width etc...
> Could be simple font issues on my end though.

I have used both Apache FOP and JasperReports. The second is much speedier and
easier. iReports is an open source project that provides a visual designer for
JasperReports, but it uses Swing. A GTK+ version of iReports would be a nice start.


> > The other thing that pokes my mind is form desiging, and I thought some
> > use of glade could be done, but not quite sure as I haven't given it a
> > whole lot of time.
> 
> I would expect that the end user should be able to design his own forms.
> Are you saying that he should design them using glade? Or that the forms
> designed should genrade glade XML data? The first case won't work I
> think, and the second would effectively mean that we'd be redesigning
> the glade tool in Java.

Using the same glade XML format has advantages: ability to work on form
rendering/execution before the visual designer is working; use of a
stabilished, well-known format; option to import/export forms to other
development tools; use the libglade infrastructure already provided bu java-gnome.


[]s, Fernando Lozano