YstokReport

YstokReport is a report definition and generation framework. The library is Lisp implementation-specific and targeted at LispWorks^®, a Common Lisp development system for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux platforms. It is based on CAPI and does not require any DLL or OLE components.

Main features:

• Output into PDF, HTML, tab- or comma-separated values (CVS), and text format,
• Adobe^® Acrobat automation,
• Top-level macros for defining report categories and types,
• GUI dialog with report generation settings,
• Report board, a main CAPI interface for the end-user to navigate and run reports.

PDF and Adobe^® Acrobat/AcroReader automation

Top-level report primitives

Macros exported from the ystok.report package allow the user to define a category hierarchy as well as specific report types and functions.

(rr:define-category cat1 () :title "Category 1")
(rr:define-report pdf-1-and-2-1 (:categories (cat1 cat2) :format :pdf)
  :title "Sample report categorized under 1 & 2"
  :interval '(:start t :end t :range :quarter)
  :panes '(...)
  ...)

Report generation settings

The Reports tab can be added to the common Settings dialog of any CAPI application that is based on the Ystok-Widgets library. This tab presents panes and check boxes for controlling report generation-related parameters:

• a proper version of the AcroReader executable file,
• a kind of fonts used,
• multiprocessing and DDE settings.

Report board

The Report board window presents the following features:

• tree view with report categories and types as nodes,
• descriptions of panes for entering report-specific input parameters: text input panes, option panes, list panes etc.,
• mutated layout of the above panes,
• switching output destination (printer or file),
• specializing output format (detailed/summary) and optional charts (plot/histogram/pie),
• saving and restoring the history of values of input parameters.

Example

The ex1.lisp sample file was used to produce this report.