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GrampsScreenReport

1. Gramps Screen Report

Here is an idea for using the Report Doc tools for creating screen documents.

Instead of going to PDF, Open Office, etc. you could go directly to a Gtk window, like so:

http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/images/ScreenDoc.png

Why would you want to do this?

  1. Often times, one runs a report to see the data on the screen.

  2. We could also have callbacks in the report interface so that if the report allowed it, you could click on an area to take you to a person, family, etc. This would allow the Report Doc format to also be a view generator.

  3. You could also use this interface as a designer to build reports, as suggested by the rulers in the above image.

Here is a basic idea of the implementation:

http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/python/ScreenDoc.py

Comments welcome.