The report component is supplied with an embedded designer, which can be called in design-time by double-clicking on the TfrxReport component. The designer provides the user with all the tools for designing a report’s appearance, along with the ability of simultaneous previewing. Designer’s interface meets up-to-date requirements. It contains several toolbars, which can be docked wherever you want. The information about bar’s location, along with all other designer settings is stored in a ini-file, if one is assigned, or in the registry, and is restored each time you launch the designer.
To give the end user of your project the ability to design reports, you should either add the “TfrxDesigner” component from the FastReport component palette, or add the “frxDesgn” unit into the uses list. Using the designer in run-time allows a user to set the report’s appearance, as well as the ability to edit a finished report. Note: you should also add any other additional Tfrx components you will use to the Delphi form as well.
In the picture, denoted with numbers: 1 – report design work space; 2 – menu bar; 3 – toolbars; 4 – object's toolbar; 5 – report pages’ tabs; 6 – “Report tree” window; 7 – “Object inspector” window; 8 – “Data tree” window. You can drag elements to a report page from this window; 9 – rulers. When dragging a ruler to a report page, the guide line (which objects can be adhered to) appears; 10 – status line.
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