Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control

The Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control (Embeddable Designer) is an ActiveX control that you can use to allow your users to design and edit Crystal Reports in your application at runtime.

Component Description

Crystal Report Designer UI Component (craxdui.dll)

A COM (Component Object Model) component that provides the user interface at design time for the user to interact with and create or modify the report.

Crystal Report Designer Design and Runtime Time Component (craxddrt.dll)

An underlying COM component that provides services for the user interface component. The component also encapsulates all of the report objects and is responsible for all of the data processing and report layout. Use this component with client based applications that incorporate the Embeddable Designer.

Crystal Report Designer Run Time Component (craxdrt.dll)

The component that encapsulates all of the report objects and is responsible for all of the data processing and report layout. Use this component with any Client based or server side application that does not incorporate the Embeddable Designer.

Active Data Driver (p2smon.dll)

A data access driver that provides access to various types of object data sources including DAO, RDO, and ADO.

Crystal Report Viewer for ActiveX (crviewer.dll)

An Active X control which can be drawn on a form and manipulated at design time. It provides a rich object model used to modify user interaction with the report at runtime. This component is required only if a developer wants to provide on-screen display of reports at runtime.

VB Form

The Crystal Reports Report Viewer Control must be embedded on a Visual Basic Form in order to display the report on screen. The Create Report Expert can automatically add a Form with the Report Viewer embedded to the project when you finish designing a report with the Expert.

Data Set

One of the following:

  • Data Access Object (DAO) Recordset
  • Remote Data Object (RDO) Resultset
  • Active Data Object (ADO) Recordset
  • VB Data Environment
  • Crystal Data Object (CDO)
  • Crystal Data Source Type Library object
  • ODBC Direct

These objects do not need to be valid at design time. For example, you could construct a report template at design time without the data being available. This is handled through Data Definition Files. However, the data set objects must be present and valid at runtime to generate a report.



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