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 FREEREPORTS 2002a

 Artificial Intelligence Technologies
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Welcome to FreeReports, a GPL reporting engine for
Visual C++, created by Artificial Intelligence
Technologies.

For information about FreeReports and to report bugs
and fixes please contact:

 paulmdx@hotmail.com

Alternatively visit:

 http://www.calcaria.net/freereports

We hope you enjoy the software.


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 GPL LICENCE

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FreeReports is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

FreeReports is distributed in the hope that it will
be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public
License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General
Public License along with VCReports; if not, write
to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA


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 USING THE OCX

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We have included a pre-built OCX along with the
source code.  If you don't have VC but want to use
the component with Delphi, VB, etc, you can use the
OCX file.  This will need registering in the usual
way, and distributing to your clients.

If you want to build the OCX yourself, or edit the
code, use the project FreeReportsVC6.  You can build
release/debug binaries in the usual way.

The project in FreeReportsVC6Demo shows you a simple
way to use FreeReports.

Please read the file API.txt, which details the
functions you have at your disposal.


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 USING THE SOURCE CLASSES

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The report render consists of three classes:

 CDrawReport - does all the rendering
 CReportInfo - specifies how the report should look
 CReportRS   - recordset containing data for report

For the purpose of FreeReports this is wrapped into
an OCX for easy use.  However, if you'd prefer, you
can include the three classes natively in your
application.  This is the way AIT does it.

The class CFreeReportsVC6Ctrl is the OCX wrapper for
the FreeReports functionality.  If you want to use
the source classes, look at this class to show you
how to instantiate the classes/etc.  It's all
pretty straightforward.


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