Alexander
Dymo

    cloudtemple@mksat.net

Phil
Thompson

    phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk

# Programmer's Guide

## How to use &kugar; for reporting in your own programs

### There are several ways to use &kugar;

- Create a temporary file and fill it with data, organized according to the KugarData Document Type Definition. Then call the `kugar` shell command (

      kugar

      -d Kugar data file

      -r Kugar template file

  ) to preview and print the report. See Using &kugar; shell for previewing reports for a detailed description.

- Use &kugar; directly in the application's code. See Using &kugar; classes for reporting for a detailed description.

- Create a &Qt; designer plugin, use it to build the application &GUI; in the designer and link it to the program dynamically. See Creating a &Qt; designer plugin for a detailed description.

The last two ways are acceptable for &Qt; and &kde; developers; but &kugar; is designed to be a report generator, independent from a programming language and/or IDE. It uses &XML; format for describing report templates and data files. So any program can produce output in &kugar; data file format as described in KugarData DTD or even a report template file format (see KugarTemplate DTD). &kugar; shell (report viewer) can be used to preview and print the generated report.

## Using &kugar; shell for previewing reports

### The way to create and preview (print) a report is:

1. Create a report template file with &kudesigner;

2. Create a data file with column values for detail bands of the report. Use KugarData DTD to produce correct data files.

3. Run &kugar; shell to preview and print a report. For example, to do this, in C or C++ languages call:

       system("kugar -r template_file.ktf-d data_file.kdf").

   Don't forget to include `stdlib.h`.

## Using &kugar; classes for reporting

The &kugar; library includes two widgets for use.

The `KReportViewer` class is designed for &kde; developers. It supports a &kde; printing system and &UNIX; localization via `i18n()` calls.

The `MReportViewer` class is designed for &Qt; developers and provides real crossplatforming. It can be used not only on &UNIX; platforms, but also on &Windows; and &MacOS;.

In order to build a program that uses the &kugar; library, it should be linked with `libkugar.so` shared library, which is provided with the &kugar; distribution on all &UNIX; platforms.

Include files are `kugarqt.h` and `kugar.h` for &Qt; and &kde; programs respectively.

For a detailed example of how &kugar; classes can be used, look in the `/shell` folder in the &kugar; sources.

`MReportViewer` (and `KReportViewer` too) contains several public methods that can be used.

    void renderReport

    Renders the report onto a screen.

    void printReport

    Calls the print dialog to print the report.

    void clearReport

    Clears the report on a screen and frees report data.
    Call this before opening the new report.

    bool setReportData
    const QString &data_file_name

    Sets report data from data_file_name file.

    bool setReportData
    const QIODevice &data_io_device

    Sets report data from data_io_device file.
    IO device can be any successor of the QIODevice class.
    For example, to fetch records directly from the database,
    create a QIODevice successor and redefine all necessary
    functionality.

    bool setReportTemplate
    const QString &template_file_name

    Sets report template from template_file_name file.

    bool setReportTemplate
    const QIODevice &template_io_device

    Sets report template from template_io_device file.
    IO device can be any successor of the QIODevice class.
    For example, to obtain a report template from network storage or database,
    create a QIODevice successor and redefine all necessary functionality.

## Creating &Qt; designer plugin

This is the example code of how a designer plugin is created. The code below creates a plugin for a &kde; `KReportViewer` widget.

If a &Qt; widget is desired, replace `KReportViewer` with `MReportViewer` and `kugar.h` with `kugarqt.h` in the plugin code.

### Plugin usage

The designer plugin will allow the usage of &Qt; Designer to place a `KReportViewer` widget onto a window and preview it correctly.

Programs that make use of this plugin must be linked dynamically with it. The corresponding library is called `libkugar_plugin.so`. Widgets or dialogs that include `KReportViewer` widget must include <kugar.h> in implementation and have a forward declaration of `class KReportViewer`. Includes can be done with &Qt; Designer's Object Explorer (Source tab).

To build the plugin run:

    qmake
    kugar_plugin.pro

    make

### Plugin code

#### The plugin code consists of three files:

kugar_plugin.h
kugar_plugin.cpp
kugar_plugin.pro
A header file for the `KugarWidgetPlugin`, `QWidgetPlugin` successor;
A source file for the `KugarWidgetPlugin`, `QWidgetPlugin` successor;
A project file for the QMake utility.

#### kugar_plugin.h

    #include <qwidgetplugin.h>

    class KugarWidgetPlugin:public QWidgetPlugin
    {
    public:
      KugarWidgetPlugin ();

      QStringList keys () const;
      QWidget *create (const QString & classname, QWidget * parent =
                       0, const char *name = 0);
      QString group (const QString &) const;
      QIconSet iconSet (const QString &) const;
      QString includeFile (const QString &) const;
      QString toolTip (const QString &) const;
      QString whatsThis (const QString &) const;
      bool isContainer (const QString &) const;
    };

#### kugar_plugin.cpp

    #include "kugar_plugin.h"
    #include <kugar.h>

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    KugarWidgetPlugin::KugarWidgetPlugin ()
    {
    }

    QStringList KugarWidgetPlugin::keys () const
    {
      QStringList list;
      list << "KReportViewer";
      return list;
    }

    QWidget* KugarWidgetPlugin::create (const QString & key, QWidget * parent,
                                        const char *name)
    {
      if (key == "KReportViewer")
        return new KReportViewer (parent, name);
      return 0;
    }

    QString KugarWidgetPlugin::group (const QString & feature) const
    {
      if (feature == "KReportViewer")
        return "Display";
      return QString::null;
    }

    QIconSet KugarWidgetPlugin::iconSet (const QString &) const
    {
      return QIconSet (QPixmap (kugar_pixmap));
    }

    QString KugarWidgetPlugin::includeFile (const QString & feature) const
    {
      if (feature == "KReportViewer")
        return "kugar.h";
      return QString::null;
    }

    QString KugarWidgetPlugin::toolTip (const QString & feature) const
    {
      if (feature == "KReportViewer")
        return "Kugar report viewer widget";
      return QString::null;
    }

    QString KugarWidgetPlugin::whatsThis (const QString & feature) const
    {
      if (feature == "KReportViewer")
        return "A widget to view xml reports";
      return QString::null;
    }

    bool KugarWidgetPlugin::isContainer (const QString &) const
    {
      return FALSE;
    }

    Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN( KugarWidgetPlugin )

#### kugar_plugin.pro

    SOURCES	+= kugar_plugin.cpp
    HEADERS	+= kugar_plugin.h

    DESTDIR = $(QTDIR)/plugins/designer
    TARGET  = kugar_plugin

    target.path=$$plugins.path
    isEmpty(target.path):target.path=$$QT_PREFIX/plugins
    PROJECTNAME = KugarPlugin
    TEMPLATE    = lib
    CONFIG	   += qt warn_on release plugin
    unix:LIBS  += -lkugar
    LANGUAGE    = C++