[VB6] Crystal Report API

[joshyfrancis]

Some of the Crystal report API functions are exposed here. I was searching for something like this but found little help. And finally I came up with this. Advantages are :

• Print Preview can be output to any window
• Faster than ActiveX component as much overload is handled by API calls.
• Can control the DEVMODE structure to handle Number of Copies , Print Quality, Orientation, Paper Size etc.
• Can connect to MSACESS or SQL Server by a given Connection String
• Parameters can be passed dynamically
• Can create new Paper/Forms on the fly or update the dimensions dynamically.

[Bobbles]

For us Scottish/pensioners/tight VB6 Pro owners, I believe the last 'free' (gift to us by MS) was ver 4.6
Will this work with that ?

[joshyfrancis]

Crystal Report API has 16 bit support. The API is taken from Crystal Reports 9.22 Setup \Tools\Developers\global32.bas. If you need 16bit support then use functions from crwrap.bas.

[Bobbles]

Crystal Report API has 16 bit support. The API is taken from Crystal Reports 9.22 Setup \Tools\Developers\global32.bas. If you need 16bit support then use functions from crwrap.bas.

I am fairly sure that 4.6 was 32 bit
Let me rephrase my question then -
Does your offering work with any version of Crystal Reports, that wil not cost VB6 Pro programmers any money ?

[joshyfrancis]

Does your offering work with any version of Crystal Reports, that wil not cost VB6 Pro programmers any money ?

Yes if Crystal Reports 9.22 costs any money.

[Bobbles]

Hopefully someone else might make sense of the answers (I'm not)
Rob

[joshyfrancis]

Does your offering work with any version of Crystal Reports, that wil not cost VB6 Pro programmers any money ?

Yes if Crystal Reports (I am using version 9.22) costs any money.