As part of the Academic's educational programme, we have decided to produce some support articles for students. If you are making business or government software that needs to be cross-platform or just run on Linux systems or native operating systems (which are also Linux), you will eventually need...
ITF-14 (Interleaved Two of Five) is a two-band numeric code, otherwise known as a high-density code, which can only encode numbers in an even number. Each barcode encodes an odd number with a dark line and an even number with a space in between. To encode an odd number of digits, you must suffix the...
What to do after DropBox stops working with Internet Explorer in OAuth 2.0 authorization mode? Since DropBox stopped supporting Internet Explorer with OAuth 2.0 authorization and the TWebBrowser component was based on Internet Explorer, there was a problem replacing TWebBrowser for authorization in...
How to programmatically set the default email client settings for sending emails from FastReport.NET
Like many other report generators, FastReport .NET allows you to send a report via email in any of the available export formats. You can send an e-mail either in the report preview mode or in the custom application code. To send an email you need to set the sender, recipient settings. On the Accou...
"Drill Down" or "deepening into data" is a concept with many sides, which can refer to actions in tables or in something else that encapsulates information. And plain and simple, it's a drop-down list! One of the most important operations is Drill-Down, for example, in OLAP with cubes, and, in prin...
How to make a mush of data into an informative report? Oracle DB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, FireBird are probably the most popular, but by no means all, of the many DBMSs in which data can be created, populated, modified and managed. Often they are filled with this very data for...
When you are tasked with creating a large number of reports within one corporate style, you face the problem of duplicating some information, design styles in each report. As a rule, public reports (documents) in a company have the same header with name and contact information. Let's say you have 50...
Recently we've released FastReport FMX 2.8 which includes support of FMXLinux framework. In this article I'd like to describe installation process and requirements based on trial version of FastReport FMX 2.8, Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.4.1, FmxLinux 1.52 from GetIT package manager and Ubuntu 20.04....
During the summer we held a contest for the best demo addon, application or report for FastReport VCL 6. We selected two winners whose projects complied with all the rules. They received their prizes and took a minute to tell us about themselves and their projects. First winning project: custom DB...
What is a ZPL file? ZPL stands for Zebra Programming Language. It allows team to create the desired print design for any label or page. This makes the label independent from the specific printing device. The printer receives commands to produce shapes, frames, symbols and other things, and itsel...