In our previous articles within the “Akademik” educational program, we have learned to install FastReport in Lazarus, mastered working with diagrams, charts, and bar codes, and connected a report to the data. Now we shall consider dialog forms. Often, one needs to set certain parameters...

This is the final article of the courses of Akademik educational program. In the previous publications, we considered building reports with dialog boxes and connecting a report to the Fast Report data. The Map Object is used to display two-dimensional graphic maps in ESRI shapefile (.shp), Open Str...

We continue to publish support articles for students as part of the Academy's educational programme. Every developer at some point will need to work with business graphics: diagrams, charts, barcodes. And our FastReport VCL will help them do it! Creation of charts and graphs To draw a diagram the ...

In the previous article about working with charts and graphs, we were already familiar with business graphics and barcodes. Now it is time to complicate the task and work with different data sources. Most reports are typically based on data from databases. To access this data Lazarus provides powerf...

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...