At 17:30 03/12/2007, Jody Garnett wrote:
My goal would be in integrate udig with BIRT charts in my own
branded RCP
application.
Nice; how is your experience with BIRT charts going? I have been
thinking of making an abstract ReportOp that has the task of creating
an html report and opening up in the web browser editor.
Are you thinking of using the BIRT chart controls live in a view? Or
even more cool would be live on the Map using a MapGraphic... I
should also point out that with Jesse's new ApplicationGIS utility
method you should actually be able to integrate map and selection
output into a normal BIRT report.
FYI: We've written a customer BIRT report element which provides a
"Map" in the BIRT report designer. This can be dragged onto a report,
sized appropriately, etc. When the report is rendered (pdf, html,
etc) a Map is drawn. Extension point mechanisms are then used to
allow other code to filter/bound what is drawn in the reported map.
This all works fairly well. Eurobios would be more than happy to make
this code available as a community plugin.
[This is nothing to do with BIRT charts, though, just BIRT reporting
in general]
cheers,
Vince.
Note: BIRT's report element extension mechanisms/Java API are
unfortunately very poorly documented and fairly poorly designed, at
least in terms of the vast amount of boilerplate code one must provide
to enable such basic things as having the user able to resize the map
in the report.
Vince Darley
CEO, Eurobios UK Ltd
Tel: +44 207 921 0445
Mobile: +44 794 154 8527
www.eurobios.com
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