Major changes for this build include:
- Beta Implementation of the Rave Language
- C++ Builder 5 Support
- Windows 2000 Printing Support
Additional details on what else has been added and updated are available by clicking here.
We are back from Borland Conference 2000 held in San Diego July 8th through
12th. Over all, we would have to describe our experience as phenomenal.
Nevrona Designs had a great conference! Our technical guys learned great tips
in the various instructional sessions, our vendor showcase conducted by Jim
Gunkel and Chad Hower was VERY well received, the technical session conducted
by Chad 'Kudzu' Hower was standing room only and had to have a second session
added. The feedback from people stopping by our snazzy new booth was very
encouraging. Of course there was great interest in Rave Reports 4.0 (formerly
ReportPrinter Pro), especially in the webbased reporting capabilities and PDF
output. People were jazzed to learn more about ND-IntraWeb, our tool for
getting a Delphi application on the web. Live demonstrations of ND-IntraWeb
had people shaking their heads saying things like "that is so easy, I can use
that today" and "I was sent to this conference to look for something to rapidly
get my app on the web and ND-IntraWeb is exactlty that product!" Hearing
comments like these was very exciting for those in the sales department, as you
might imagine.
If you were in attendance at BorCon, you could not miss that we had a slot car
race track set up in our booth. Who would have thought that so many
programmers loved slot car racing? Many, many people stopped by our booth to
try their hand at running the fastest, five lap time of the day. We gave away
Nevrona Designs polo shirts to the four different "fastest of the day" winners,
and a license of ReportPrinter Pro/Rave to the one "fastest of the conference".
Khan Sibounheuang, a programmer and analyst with the Mason &
Hanger Corporation in Amarillo, TX was the winner of the "fastest of the
conference" and proudly took home his license of ReportPrinter Pro/Rave.
Congratulations, Khan!
On June 17, Jim Pitre, one of the directors here at Nevrona Designs, will embark
upon the Race Across America, a 2975 mile long bicycle race from Oregon to
Florida. Nevrona is co-sponsoring Pitre's ride and we wish him great success!
See http://www.azcentral.com/sports/azetc/0607raam.shtml
for a recent newspaper write-up.
Nevrona Designs is also helping to automate the process of tracking the racers through the course of the 10 day long event See www.raceacrossamerica.org for continuing updates on Pitre's and the other rider's progress.
Update - We have the new server up but it will take a few days for the newsserver domain "news.nevrona.com" to be set correctly. In the meantime, you can access the Nevrona Designs newsgroups by replacing "news.nevrona.com" with "208.225.207.130" as the server name. The IntraWeb demos and all other aspects of the Nevrona server are back in full operation.
The Nevrona server is temporarily down. We are moving it to a higher speed, higher visibility location. We will keep you updated as to when it will be back on line. This does not, obviously, affect our web page as you are currently viewing it. It does, however, apply to the IntraWeb demos and the newsgroups. Thank you for your patience.
In cooperation with GenoTechs, Inc., we're going to be holding a training session on the Rave visual reporting system on June 1st and 2nd in Phoenix, Arizona. Information about what is covered in this training session is available at the GenoTechs, Inc. ReportPrinter Pro/RAVE Training - Course Outline. The training is appropriate for either a programmer or end-user of Rave.
Space is limited and it's only a month away but flight and hotel reservations should still be available. For more information or to reserve your place for this training session contact:
GenoTechs, Inc. 2737 West Southern Ave. Tempe, AZ 85282 (toll-free) 1-800-GENOTEX (1-800-436-6839) (voice) 1-602-438-8647 (fax) 1-602-438-8654 (email) info@genotechs.com (website) www.genotechs.com
Please do not contact Nevrona Designs to make reservations, this is being handled entirely by GenoTechs. These training sessions are not being done to replace our normal tech support channels, but are provided as an enhanced service for you and your customers.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 1st, 1999
Nevrona Designs is announcing ND-Winshoes, a product based on the popular open source Internet component suite, Winshoes. Nevrona Designs' extensive experience with Winshoes will allow them to provide enhanced technical support, documentation and consulting services for Winshoes in a manner similar to the services that Red Hat and other vendors provide for the open source operating system, Linux.
The enhanced documentation and examples for ND-Winshoes will be released under the same open source license as Winshoes and will be available for free download from the Nevrona Designs web site (www.nevrona.com) as they become available. Technical support will be provided through three different plans on an annual subscription.
- Level 1 - $49 - Access to private support forums
- Level 2 - $99 - Level 1 + email tech support
- Level 3 - $249 - Level 2 + telephone technical support
Nevrona Designs president, Jim Gunkel, believes that we've only just begun to see the possibilities that Internet development will allow. Jim stated, "The Internet is already an integral part of daily business life, challenging software developers with a whole new group of problems as they try to tackle Internet programming. Through its easy-to-use yet powerful library and its open source license, Winshoes has quickly become the Internet tool of choice for Delphi and C++Builder programmers.
"Open source projects such as Winshoes are great for the timely addition of features and bug fixes, but the technical support and documentation that professional developers need is often not there. With ND-Winshoes, we will be providing much needed help for those who are just getting started with Internet programming as well as uncovering the hidden power of Winshoes for the experienced developer."
Chad Hower, better known as Kudzu on the public forums, is the creator of Winshoes and has recently joined the Nevrona Designs development team. Chad had this to say about ND-Winshoes, "As the original author and current project coordinator I've had many requests from developers whose corporation requires a corporate entity backing in order to use an open source product. Also, from both corporations and individuals I've had requests for timely, professional technical support. ND-Winshoes solves both of these issues, and at the same time will further advance the product by contributing documentation, support and development back into the open source Winshoes community."
For more information about the Open Source Winshoes project visit http://www.pbe.com/SourceWorks/Winshoes or contact kudzu@pbe.com.
To order ND-Winshoes or for more information about Nevrona Designs and their
line of programming tools visit http://www.nevrona.com or contact
info@nevrona.com.
Major changes for this build include:
- Delphi 5.0 support
- Left, Right and First RTF Indents now supported
- Field Aliasing
Additional details on what else has been added and updated are available on the Nevrona Designs download page.
Major changes for this build include:
- Internationalization support
- PIVars (Print totals easily before the details)
- Automatic page size, orientation and waste area management
- Band columns
Additional details on what else has been added and updated are available on the Nevrona Designs download page.
Major changes for this build include:
- Major Property Panel enhancements
- Undo Delete option
- New calculation components
- RaveDemo project updated with more examples and descriptions
Additional details on what else has been added and updated are available on the Nevrona Designs download page.
Major changes for this build include:
- TRaveDataCycle fixed
- Added Local Filtering
- RTF printing speed increased 5 to 10 times
- Added Memo truncation support
Additional details on what else has been added and updated are available on the Nevrona Designs download page.
The first Rave training session, held in cooperation with
GenoTechs, Inc.,
was a big success and also a lot of fun. We got many great suggestions from
those that attended and plan on holding additional training sessions at both
the beginner and advanced levels in the future. If you are interested in
getting hands-on Rave training for yourself, members of your development team
or your end users, feel free to contact us at
training@nevrona.com for
details. Training can be arranged at the GenoTechs training center or at your
site. Future training dates will be announced on the Nevrona Designs web site.
NOTE: These training sessions are not being created to replace our normal tech support channels, but are provided as an enhanced service for you and your customers.
We're happy to welcome two new members to Team Nevrona, Derrick Thomas and Scott Kane. They join the other helpful members of Team Nevrona, Glenn Crouch, John Metzker and John Truchon, to help make the Nevrona Designs user community a better place. For more information about Team Nevrona, click here.
We've decided to make the big switch from a mailing list to a web-based discussion forum. We have these new forums now available on our web site (click on the Nevrona Forums link on the navigation bar). There were several reasons we decided to go this route rather than continue with the mailing list or newsgroups.
- Mailing lists are not searchable/archived, many people don't like getting lots of email every day and the threads are disjointed and sometimes hard to follow from day to day.
- Newsgroups are very popular but the readers can be tricky to configure for custom servers. Because of this it discourages the casual reader and most readers require you to download the entire message base to perform searches. Newsgroup servers are also difficult for us to maintain and the content may not be easily transferrable if we switch servers or OS's. It's also difficult to set up private newsgroups which is a feature we were looking for. Lastly, many users do not have newsgroup access at work because of firewall limitations while just about everyone has web access.
We evaluated several different web based forums and decided upon UlitimateBB (www.ultimatebb.com) which has a very clean look and many nice features. The product is updated frequently so new features are being added all the time whereas newsgroups and mailing lists pretty much stay the same.
After April 11th, we'll be terminating the RPPro, RaveRant, AdHocery and
Propel mailing lists and going entirely to the web based forums for our
discussion lists (anyway, our web site is so much nicer to look at now One nice feature of the web forums is that we have more granularity for the
topics of each forum and we also have a TechLib forum for each product that
will contain useful technical articles. So stop by and take a look at the
format and check out the features. Whether you're a lurker or an active
member, I think you'll find configuration options that will make it easy to
access the information that you need in an easier manner than mailing lists
or newsgroups.
This is more than just a simple patch update, major new features have been
added including:
- C++Builder 4.0 support
- Ability to store report project (.RAV) inside the executable
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- TRaveDataCycle component - Creates data aware pages
- TRaveEANBarCode component - EAN 13 support
- Advanced band positioning and many other new data-aware features
- Text rotation and truncation
- Context sensitive help in the Rave designer
- Rulers for easier measurements on the page designer
- Project | Reopen menu item for quick access to the projects you're working on
- Waste area display on page designer
Additional details on what has been added and updated are available on the Nevrona Designs download page.
In cooperation with GenoTechs, Inc., we're going to be holding a training session on the new Rave visual designer on April 19th and 20th. This first training session will be performed by the staff of Nevrona Designs. After this first session, GenoTechs will be creating training materials and hosting additional training sessions themselves.
This first session will be geared towards programmer level use of Rave. GenoTechs, however, plans on providing two levels of training, one for programmers and one for end users. So if you include the Rave designer with your application, your customers will be able to get professional training on how to use Rave to create their own reports.
Since this is the first time, GenoTechs is offering special pricing on the two day session, so if you are going to do this, now is the time. Hurry, space is limited and it's only a month away but flight and hotel reservations should still be available. For more information or to reserve your place for this training session contact:
GenoTechs, Inc. 2737 West Southern Ave. Tempe, AZ 85282 (toll-free) 1-800-GENOTEX (1-800-436-6839) (voice) 1-602-438-8647 (fax) 1-602-438-8654 (email) genotex@genotechs.com (website) www.genotechs.com
Please do not contact Nevrona Designs to make reservations, this is being handled entirely by GenoTechs. These training sessions are not being created to replace our normal tech support channels, but are provided as an enhanced service for you and your customers. Thanks,
UPDATE!
The April 19th and 20th training session is now full. Thanks to everyone for registering, it's going to be fun and informative. If you would like to get on the waiting list in case anyone cancels for the April session or to reserve aspot for the next training session, call GenoTechs and they will take your information.
Several new mailing lists were created including an announcement only mailing list. For details, click here.
This is a minor update that adds a few minor features and fixes several issues that were found in the initial release of ReportPrinter Pro 3.0.