REALbasic Reporting Tools

icon1Posted by paul on Jun 3, 2009 in Uncategorized | 5 comments

Reporting Tools that work with REALbasic remain a hot topic, so I thought it would be worth a brief post to list the options that are currently available.

On-Target Reports: $200

The oldest and most mature of the reporting solutions. It is a set of encrypted REALbasic classes that you drop in your project. A report designer is also included.

Report Framework: Free

These open-source classes were originally developed by Keith DeLong of RedCort software. They do a good job of abstracting out the hard stuff, but there is not a lot of functionality. It might be useful for some simple reporting, however.

Valentina Reports: $400

Introduced in early 2009, this reporting tool only works the Valentina Database. It includes a very slick report designer.

RSReport: $86

Introduced in late 2008, this reporting tool is a set of encrypted REALbasic classes. It doesn’t include a report designer, so you’ll be creating all your reports in REALbasic code. It has a decent amount of features and is updated regularly, but documentation is only in German.

Einhugur Reports: $200

Included as part of the Einhugur tools suite, but pricing has not yet been finalized as it is still in early alpha stages.

TurboReport: $Price not set

Also still in development stages, but looks to have some nice features.

Update (Jun 5, 2009):

rbrw-core

A REALbasic report writer based on OOFILE.

And lastly, REAL Software announced in their June newsletter that they are working on a reporting component that will be part of the IDE itself.

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5 Responses to “REALbasic Reporting Tools”

  1. Bob Keeney says:
    June 3, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    RSReport’s documentation goes through Google Docs so you can get a translation fairly easily. It’s not as good as a real translation, but it’s good enough.

    The included demo app as well as the ones on the ARBP website are good examples of how to use RSReport.

  2. Keith DeLong says:
    June 3, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Paul, Thanks for the mention of my report framework classes. I continue to be amazed by the interest in report writers and the complete lack of contributions to my open source printing framework classes.

    The classes were from a talk I gave at REAL World in 2007. As mentioned on the download page, the hope was that they’d grow into an open source report writer for REALbasic. I get emails about the classes every month so I know developers are looking at them and using them. In two years I’ve received zero code contributions.

    The framework is the foundation of a quite sophisticated report writer that we use internally and in our commercial products. I do not have the time/interest in releasing our report writer as a commercial product. On the other hand, if developers contributed to my open source foundation classes, I’d be glad to contribute code to the project as well.

  3. Scott Steinman says:
    June 3, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    Keith,

    I also noted a lack of interest when I open sourced Reality Check, even though a lot of people expressed interest in the finished product. For some reason I don’t understand, the RB community is not into contributing to open projects.

    Scott

  4. Dirk Cleenwerck says:
    June 5, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    I didn’t see this mentioned?

    rbrw-core
    REALbasic report-writer based on OOFILE

    To be found at
    http://code.google.com/p/rbrw-core/

    I haven’t had a chance to try it yet though. I’m using a licensed On-Target reports at work for now.

  5. Philipp says:
    June 27, 2009 at 10:06 am

    There is already a price for http://www.turboreport.com yet. It is for free, as it was released under open source.