Crystal Reports™ 8.5 Developer's Guide

The Report Designer Component
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)
Crystal Report Designer
Design and Runtime Time
Component (craxddrt.dll)
Crystal Report Designer Run
Time Component (craxdrt.dll)
Active Data Driver
(p2smon.dll)
Crystal Report Viewer for
ActiveX (crviewer.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.
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.
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.
Adataaccessdriverthatprovidesaccesstovarioustypesof
object data sources including DAO, RDO, and ADO.
AnActiveXcontrolwhichcanbedrawnonaformand
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 onscreen
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” on page 45.However,thedatasetobjectsmust
be present and valid at runtime to generate a report.
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