Visual Basic : Crystal Reports for Visual Basic user's manual : version 4.0 /
Microsoft Corporation.
- Redmond, Washington : Microsoft, 1995
- 143 p.
CONTENIDO Chapter 1. Getting Started 1 Starting Crystal Reports 1 The Crystal Reports Registration dialog box 2 Quick Start 5 Chapter 2. Introduction 9 About Crystal Reports 9 Use as a print engine with Visual C++ 10 Why Crystal Reports 10 Row Crystal Reports prepares reports 11 Things you can do with Crystal Reports 11 Additional things you can do 12 All this and more, yet easy to use and distribute 13 Databases that work with Crystal Reports 14 The Crystal Reports window 15 Right mouse-button capabilities 20 Crystal Reports Cursors 21 Crystal Reports report windows 22 Messages 24 Getting Help With Crystal Reports 24 Context sensitive help 25 Indexed help 25 Help Features 25 About this manual 26 Special notations used in this manual 27 Chapter 3. Using Crystal Reports 29 Deciding on the content of your report 30 Developing a prototype on paper 36 Setting up the prototype using Crystal Reports 37 Manipulating data with formulas and functions 53 Grouping, summarizing, and sorting your data 60 Editing and formatting the data 64 Adding graphics and OLE objects 65 Specifying records/groups to be included 66 Printing the finished report 67 Chapter 4 Tutorial - Customer List 69 Customer list report 70 Getting Started 70 Working with text and OLE objects 82 Sorting and summarizing your report 87 Rearranging data into a data block format 92 A first look at selecting records 98 Chapter 5. The Crystal Custom Control 103 The Crystal Reports package 103 How to install the CRW Custom Control 104 Changing properties in the Crystal Report Control Properties dialog box 105 Crystal Custom Control properties 107 General property page 107 Print Window property page 108 Printer property page 109 Print to File property page 110 Database property page 111 Selection property page 112 Other properties 113 Setting properties at runtime 114 The Crystal Custom Control sample application 120 The Sample Application Dissected 122 Appendix A Product Support, Upgrades, and Licensing 129 Product Support 129 FAX Support - FREE 129 Crystal Connect Modem Support 130 Telephone Support 130 Mail-in Support - FREE 130 Online Bulletin Board Support - FREE! 131 Fax On Demand 131 Extended Technical Support Policy 131 Product Registration 132 Crystal Reports Upgrade Express 132 Product Return Policy 132 Product Replacement Policy 133 International Technical Support Contacts 133 License Agreement and Limited Warranty 134 Index 137