Popular report writing tool adds e-mail, advanced calculations, and flexible control functions to a range of features to enable users to design and share professional reports
Syware has introduced Report CE 3.0, a major new release of what it says is the world1s only report writing tool for Windows CE and Pocket PC handhelds.
Now available in Personal and Professional editions, Report CE 3.0 includes a wealth of new features that enable users to quickly design and share professional reports in the exactly the format required.
With Report CE 3.0, reports can be e-mailed as text attachments, providing a quick and easy way to distribute receipts to customers or stocking reports to distributors.
Reports can also be displayed and printed in colour, providing a professional look and feel for the end product.
For developers, Report CE 3.0 provides more flexible integration with a wide range of software. Reports can be seamlessly launched and printed from applications created using Syware's Visual CE database development software, or from applications written in embedded Visual Basic or embedded Visual C++.
Report CE Professional also includes a royalty-free license to distribute standardised reports.
The new release of Report CE also expands the range of numeric, string, and date functions.
Calculated controls can now handle scalar functions in addition to the previously supported basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Twenty four new numeric functions include sine, cosine, tangent, degrees, exponents, square root, and truncation.
Fifteen new string functions allow for more flexible handling of page real estate and include such capabilities as removal of leading blank spaces, search and replace, conversion of upper case to lower case, and repeat of character strings.
Nine new date and time functions include name of day, name of month, day of week, hour, minute, month, quarter, week, and year.
Report CE 3.0's more flexible development environment allows the user to change the properties of multiple controls at once, such as font and colour. In addition, fields can expand and contract to handle more information per page and save paper when printing.
Report CE works with any Windows CE 2.0 or higher based device (H/PC, H/PC Pro, Handheld PC 2000, and Pocket PC).
Reports can be designed on a desktop PC or on the Pocket PC/Windows CE device.
Printing is done via the infrared port of the device or from the desktop. Data can also be saved to a text file for import to other applications.
