fastreport vcl is an add-on component that allows your application to generate reports quickly and efficiently. fastreport provides all the necessary tools to develop reports, including a visual report designer, a reporting core, and a preview window. it can be used in the borland delphi 4-2006 and borland c++builder 4-2006 environments. fastreport vcl works with borland delphi 2-7 and borland c++builder 1-6. it written in object pascal and uses the borland vcl library. features: * fast, compact and flexible code that you can extend. no additional dlls needed. * built-in powerful and easy-to-use designer accessible at run-time. * suitable msword-like report preview with "search text" and "edit" functions. * useful component set: text, line, picture, shape, ole, richtext, chart, barcode. * you can also write your own components. * export your reports to other formats (such as txt, rtf, csv, html, pdf and other). * built-in pascal-like macro language allows you to write code without programming in delphi. this allows you to create reports that can't be created using other tools. * fastreport reports can contain dialog forms that you can use to modify parameters before preparing a report. you can use as many dialogs as you need. fastreport uses the same designer for dialogs with a standard set of dialog controls: button, edit, checkbox and others. * fastreport provides a variety of database engines allowing you to create tables, queries and database components at run-time.your reports can be completely independent of your application! * fastreport can import data from tables and queries, arrays and data files from any source. * fastreport is not bde-dependent and can be used with any database library based on the standard tdataset component. * fastreport also works with ib_objects, a powerful and widely known library for interbase dbms. * localization in 19 languages. fastreport makes it easier to internationalize your applications .