Crystal Report Control--VB6

Can someone explain what the Crystal Reports control does? Do you have to have CR installed to use this thing, or is it some kind of substitute? Thanks.

[Johnny101]

The Crystal Report control allows you to call a report that you (or someone else) has already designed with the Crstal Reports application. In VB5 and before some version of Crystal shipped with VB. But in VB6 you have the Report Designer and MS doesn't ship the actual crystal report product, just the runtime control. (I think - i haven't found the product anyway) So, you can install crystal reports from your own CD, design a report, and then use the control in VB to activate that report, much like you would with the report designer, only since crystal is a third party object, you can't get in there and debug any of the reports, or calling them. But, once you get it work, it works nicely, and its prettier than the reports you get from the report designer.

Hope this answered your question,
John

John Pirkey
MCSD
www.ShallowWaterSystems.com

[d.paulson]

crystal reports is shipped with vb6 pro edition and up and not on the learning edition. I upgraded from the learning edition to pro and crystal reports was on the upgrade cd. I find that crystal reports is easier and more powerful
then the data report designer. i give data report designer two thumbs down.