The FastReport .NET report generator offers broad opportunities for customization, that is, configuring for your own needs. From the user application code, you may create your own components of the report generator, using the FastReport libraries. Thus, you may create your own report designer and its viewer.
Also, you may change dialog windows in the report designer, for example, a window of file saving.
However, the truly limitless opportunities for customization are provided by the source code of the report generator. You may reconfigure current functions for your needs or add new ones. Today, we will speak about how to add your own control element to the toolbox in the report designer.
Let us assume that you frequently use a text object with certain settings in your reports. It would be convenient to have a configured object “text” with a certain font or color highlighting, not to set these properties manually every time.
You will just ...