Category: Valentina Studio Pro

Valentina Reports get ODBC-datasource!

Valentina Reports now support ODBC datasource!

This is great, because now Valentina Reports can work with data stored practically in any database format (MS Access, MS SQL, Oracle, Postgre SQL, mySQL, … ) and even XML.

In Valentina Studio improved datasource dialog to support ODBC.

In a Valentina ADK code, you should specify connection string in the VProject.MakeNewReport( inDataSource ), as the following: odbc://dsn=access,user=name,pass=123

Will be available in the 4.9b5 build or newer.

[VReports][NEW] Improved HTML, Picture Controls

On users request we have made the next major improvements in Valentina Reports:

  • HTML Control now can get HTML text/content from:
    • TEXT typed directly in the control
    • FIELD of cursor
    • by URL from a FIELD of cursor
    • URL (local or remote)
  • Picture Control now can get a picture from:
    • FIELD of cursor
    • URL from a field of cursor
    • URL (local or remote)
  • HTML text can contain a macro $() to, for example, refer another field

You can see details on the following pictures.

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[NEW] SQLite plugin for Valentina Studio Pro (!!!)

In v4.8 we introduce PREVIEW of a new Valentina Studio Pro plugin – SQLite. We do this on few reasons:

1) Around Valentina DB exists many IDEs where SQLite is integrated on default. So we have quite often case when Lite developer want switch to Valentina DB.

2) We going to open Valentina Reports to users of other databases also. First of them with be users of SQLite. So it will be comfortable for them to be able use Valentina Studio to design REPORTS, and in the same time manage their SQLite dbs. The second our step will be – to add other dbs (Postgre, MS SQL, ODBC, …) and also integrate them into Valentina Studio, at least via our ODBC plugin.

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vClient becomes thread-safe (!)

Now you should not synch vClient API calls  – vClient do it self and you are free to access and operates with vClient’s remote objects from different threads similiangly.

In particular, vStudio operates with remote connections via multiple threads  and it was a source of some glitches and unexpected errors especially with a long queries.  Now there are no more errors like “EOF reached…” or “Broken packet received…” which were result of incorrect thread synch.

NEW Left Side Bar in Schema Editor of Valentina Studio

We have added the left side bar into Schema Editor.

It looks similar to what have OS X Finder and Windows 7. This sidebar allows you easy jump to the most common and/or recent places of your job. For example, you can by single click open recent database or connection or your bookmark to a Valentina Server. Your login and password can be stored, so no need to retype them each time.

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Two new Video Tutorials about ODBC datasource setup.

We have add 2 news video tutorials EN. One for MAC and one for WIN about how to setup ODBC datasource around Valentina ODBC driver.

http://valentina-db.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=valentina:video:video

These lessons can be helpful to setup ODBC data source for other dbs also, e.g. MySQL or MS Access, if you want import from then into Valentina using
Valentina Studio ODBC data import.

And lesson about this import from ODBC is our next lesson, which is in the work.