Visual C++ 6.0 & Crystal 3

[SpenBabe]

Has anyone got any more info on how to use RDC with Visual C++ 6.0 than the measly two and a half pages that comes in the Seagate Developer's Guide [sig][/sig]

 

[MalcolmW]

The FAQ Seagate Documents has a RDC link - their web site is usually a better source of developer documentation than is their printed or online help. [sig][/sig]

 

[DianeJ]

Seagate doesn't seem to have anymore documentation for VC++ besides a couple of example programs.

If you are using Crystal Reports 8 checkout the Salaries sample program provided on the installation CD. This sample imports the craxdrt.tlb.

Another sample program that might be useful for version 8 I found on the Seagate website in the Online Support section. Search for SCR_C++_RDCEvents.exe in the 'Download files and updates' section. This example imports the craxdrt.dll.

I haven't tested these programs out on version 8 yet as I'm still developing in version 7 until we release our product. For the moment I'm testing out switching from using CRPE API calls to using the RDC for Crystal Reports version 7 and am running into problems in trying to set the subreport database location.

I tried importing version 7 of craxdrt.dll but it resulted in errors when I compiled, so I tried using a header file (crvb60ri.h) from a downloaded sample (rdc7_cpp.exe). This seemed to work fine until I tried to set the report object that I found to be of kind subreport to a subreport object. Conversion errors resulted, and I'm still waiting for a reply from Seagate support.
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