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| Re: BIRT reports using internal browser or SWT [message #521409 is a reply to message #521259] |
Wed, 17 March 2010 14:18   |
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Miles,
BIRT already uses the SWT Browser widget when previewing reports. The
logic is in the BIRT viewer plugin and it deploys the viewer to the
jetty plugin. You can use the viewer plugin in any Eclipse application.
Is this what you are talking about?
Jason
Miles Parker wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm wondering if the BIRT team have given thought to supporting internal
> browser for viewing reports and charts directly from User report
> designer tools? I may have missed something somewhere, but while I can
> say create a BIRT chart and display it within an Eclipse View or Editor
> part, and (though I haven't actually tried it) one can programmatically
> display a chart using the Viewer, users don't have a way to see a chart
> internally. I'd really like to be able to present charts and tables
> (cross tabs would be nice too :) ) to users internally, and don't mind
> doing some coding to accomplish that, but I don't want to re-invent the
> wheel if there might be a way to do that using the existing BIRT UI.
>
> Hope this query makes sense,
>
> Miles
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| Re: BIRT reports using internal browser or SWT [message #521509 is a reply to message #521501] |
Wed, 17 March 2010 20:25 |
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Miles,
I am not certain what the issue is on OS X. One number 2 and 3 can I
get some clarification on what you want to be able to do? Some of the
design of the Viewer plugin had to do with being able to deploy it as a
plugin or a J2EE app with little code change. So this might have played
into the choices that were made for it. When you say take an arbitrary
report created and look at it internally, can you give an example? Are
you talking about in an RCP application or J2EE?
Thanks
Jason
Miles Parker wrote:
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> Hi Jason, please see below..
>
> Jason Weathersby wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 10:18
>> Miles,
>>
>> BIRT already uses the SWT Browser widget when previewing reports. The
>> logic is in the BIRT viewer plugin and it deploys the viewer to the
>> jetty plugin. You can use the viewer plugin in any Eclipse
>> application. Is this what you are talking about?
>>
>> Jason
>
>
>
> There are a couple of related issues here..
>
> 1. The Eclipse preview doesn't use the SWT browser currently on OS X.
> See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=270189
>
> 2. But assuming it does, I'm curious why the behavior is to deploy to
> jetty external instead of inside of Eclipse? Presumably there is an
> advantage / requirement for this.
>
> 3. I'm really happy to be able to use the viewer plugin from within
> Eclipse, but (I think?) that will only work for those situations where
> I'm actually handling the whole report production chain. Is there any
> simple way to plugin into this functionality for the user at report
> production time so that the user could then take any arbitrary report
> she has created and look at it internally?
>
> thanks,
>
> Miles
>
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| Re: BIRT reports using internal browser or SWT [message #521510 is a reply to message #521509] |
Wed, 17 March 2010 20:28 |
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One other note:
If you are using the Report Engine API you can call the report engine
from your app and put the output to your own Browser if you wish, with
out the need of Jetty or the Viewer plugin.
Jason
Jason Weathersby wrote:
> Miles,
>
> I am not certain what the issue is on OS X. One number 2 and 3 can I
> get some clarification on what you want to be able to do? Some of the
> design of the Viewer plugin had to do with being able to deploy it as a
> plugin or a J2EE app with little code change. So this might have played
> into the choices that were made for it. When you say take an arbitrary
> report created and look at it internally, can you give an example? Are
> you talking about in an RCP application or J2EE?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
>
> Miles Parker wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason, please see below..
>>
>> Jason Weathersby wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 10:18
>>> Miles,
>>>
>>> BIRT already uses the SWT Browser widget when previewing reports.
>>> The logic is in the BIRT viewer plugin and it deploys the viewer to
>>> the jetty plugin. You can use the viewer plugin in any Eclipse
>>> application. Is this what you are talking about?
>>>
>>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>> There are a couple of related issues here..
>>
>> 1. The Eclipse preview doesn't use the SWT browser currently on OS X.
>> See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=270189
>>
>> 2. But assuming it does, I'm curious why the behavior is to deploy to
>> jetty external instead of inside of Eclipse? Presumably there is an
>> advantage / requirement for this.
>>
>> 3. I'm really happy to be able to use the viewer plugin from within
>> Eclipse, but (I think?) that will only work for those situations where
>> I'm actually handling the whole report production chain. Is there any
>> simple way to plugin into this functionality for the user at report
>> production time so that the user could then take any arbitrary report
>> she has created and look at it internally?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Miles
>>
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| Re: BIRT reports using internal browser or SWT [message #521520 is a reply to message #521509] |
Wed, 17 March 2010 21:25 |
 Miles Parker
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| Jason Weathersby wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 16:25 | Miles,
I am not certain what the issue is on OS X. One number 2 and 3 can I
get some clarification on what you want to be able to do? Some of the
design of the Viewer plugin had to do with being able to deploy it as a
plugin or a J2EE app with little code change. So this might have played
into the choices that were made for it. When you say take an arbitrary
report created and look at it internally, can you give an example? Are
you talking about in an RCP application or J2EE?
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I'm actually thinking any Platform app. (In my case it's for a set of EMF related features to be integrated with the Eclipse SDK.) IOTW, I (a modeling tools developer) would like to install BIRT, write a report, select a menu item and see that report appear in a view in my workbench. (Or as a page in the editor ala preview.) I'd assumed that the Viewer was designed in that kind of flexible way, which is what prompted me wondering "why doesn't BIRT support this OOTB?"
| Jason Weathersby wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 16:28 | One other note:
If you are using the Report Engine API you can call the report engine
from your app and put the output to your own Browser if you wish, with
out the need of Jetty or the Viewer plugin.
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Yeah, and I think you can even do it right to SWT, right? I've been doing this with the Chart API and it works great -- the Agent Modeling Framework AGF charts component is actually updating these charts in real-time (!) and performance is quite decent.
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| Re: BIRT reports using internal browser or SWT [message #521699 is a reply to message #521520] |
Thu, 18 March 2010 14:22 |
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Miles,
Any chance you are going to be at EclipseCon next week? If so we can
discuss then. I am doing a class on Integrating BIRT that shows the
various ways the Engine(s) and Viewer can be deployed. I would like to
get some more details on what you would like to see.
Jason
Miles Parker wrote:
> Jason Weathersby wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 16:25
>> Miles,
>>
>> I am not certain what the issue is on OS X. One number 2 and 3 can I
>> get some clarification on what you want to be able to do? Some of the
>> design of the Viewer plugin had to do with being able to deploy it as
>> a plugin or a J2EE app with little code change. So this might have
>> played into the choices that were made for it. When you say take an
>> arbitrary report created and look at it internally, can you give an
>> example? Are you talking about in an RCP application or J2EE?
>
>
> I'm actually thinking any Platform app. (In my case it's for a set of
> EMF related features to be integrated with the Eclipse SDK.) IOTW, I (a
> modeling tools developer) would like to install BIRT, write a report,
> select a menu item and see that report appear in a view in my workbench.
> (Or as a page in the editor ala preview.) I'd assumed that the Viewer
> was designed in that kind of flexible way, which is what prompted me
> wondering "why doesn't BIRT support this OOTB?"
>
> Jason Weathersby wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 16:28
>> One other note:
>> If you are using the Report Engine API you can call the report engine
>> from your app and put the output to your own Browser if you wish, with
>> out the need of Jetty or the Viewer plugin.
>> >
>
>
> Yeah, and I think you can even do it right to SWT, right? I've been
> doing this with the Chart API and it works great -- the Agent Modeling
> Framework AGF charts component is actually updating these charts in
> real-time (!) and performance is quite decent.
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| Re: BIRT reports using internal browser or SWT [message #522003 is a reply to message #521799] |
Fri, 19 March 2010 10:30 |
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In the source tree we do have a preview that just uses the engine api
and places the results on a SWT Browser. I also have one I am showing
next week. When I get back I will post to Birt Exchange. If you get
time it would be great if you could test in your app and send your thoughts.
Jason
Miles Parker wrote:
> Jason Weathersby wrote on Thu, 18 March 2010 10:22
>> Miles,
>>
>> Any chance you are going to be at EclipseCon next week? If so we can
>> discuss then. I am doing a class on Integrating BIRT that shows the
>> various ways the Engine(s) and Viewer can be deployed. I would like
>> to get some more details on what you would like to see.
>>
>> Jason
>
>
> I'm not, unfortunately. I was supposed to give a talk but I couldn't
> make it. :( I think what I should try to do is try my hand at getting
> the SWT viewer to display manually with a programmatically created
> report just so that I can get a feel for it. You class would be super
> useful for that!
>
> My ultimate very broad goal is to simply make the BIRT user experience
> as seamlessly integrated with all of the other visualization stuff I'm
> doing as possible, which means that users are able to change a lot of
> stuff and even layout whole reports and charts, etc.. but then see the
> results directly within the Eclipse IDE.
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| Re: BIRT reports using internal browser or SWT [message #522065 is a reply to message #522039] |
Fri, 19 March 2010 19:16 |
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Miles,
In the source I believe this is the
org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.preview.static_html project
A simple example is available on Birt Exchange
To look at an example download:
http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/deploying-birt-reports /1145-birt-2-5-integration-webinar/#description
And look at the rcpengine example.
Jason
Miles Parker wrote:
> Jason Weathersby wrote on Fri, 19 March 2010 06:30
>> In the source tree we do have a preview that just uses the engine api
>> and places the results on a SWT Browser. I also have one I am showing
>> next week. When I get back I will post to Birt Exchange. If you get
>> time it would be great if you could test in your app and send your
>> thoughts.
>
>
> Cool, I can try it now. Can you just send me the location in source tree?
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) to users internally, and don't mind doing some coding to accomplish that, but I don't want to re-invent the wheel if there might be a way to do that using the existing BIRT UI.
I think what I should try to do is try my hand at getting the SWT viewer to display manually with a programmatically created report just so that I can get a feel for it. You class would be super useful for that!