Embeddable Designer Control

Post Author: fmenditto
CA Forum: General
Is possible to know at runtime wich field have focus in Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control ?
thanks a lot
Filippo

Hi Marcus,
The Embedded Designer Control has always been available but under license only. I believe you have the option to purchase mass keycodes for distribution with your product or you could simply distribute your app runtime only and the end user then purchases a develoepr version of CR to get the runtime files. This covers the licensing for you. If you distribute the runtime you can download the Merge Modules and build a distribution package, check forums, lots of posting on distribution questions.
Check the License file on the CD/DVD. It explains how each version is licensed.
There is no replacement for Embeddable Designer control as of CR 2008. Using RAS it has RCAPI functionality and you bascially build your own report designer using the Add methods in within RAS. Typically it is easier to use a template report and make changes as required but it can create a new report without using a template report.
The other option you have is there is a Java based designer called Eclipse. You can download it and get more info from this link: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/crystalreports-java
It has a designer built in also but you need to be an OEM Partner to be able to distribute it.
As for migrating there is no one to one API mapping, there is a white paper somewhere that does have info on how to, but with the changes we are still trying to find it. The order of functions are basically the same but the syntax is completely different. You can download sample app's off this site also as well as the developer help file.
Thats about your only options.
Thanks again
Don

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I suggest rather than using the Embeddable Designer Control to create your own Designer using RAS ( Report Application Server ). It does mean you'll have to create it from the beginning, there is no starting point.
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I am using "Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control" Crystal Report 11 with Visual Basic 6.0.
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Les comento, estoy utilizando el control "Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control" (CRDesignerCtrl11_5) del Crystal Report 11 en un proyecto de Visual Basic 6.0
Cuando cargo un reporte dos veces, se presenta la "vista previa de informe principal". Sin embargo cuando vuelvo a cargar otro reporte no se actualiza la "vista previa de informe principal" sino que se queda con la información cargada anteriormente.
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Referecnes Added:
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