Bug 256257 - Provide rendering to SWT canvas
Summary: Provide rendering to SWT canvas
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: BIRT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 enhancement with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Birt-Converter-inbox CLA
QA Contact: Xiaoying Gu CLA
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Reported: 2008-11-24 05:55 EST by Mark Hoffmann CLA
Modified: 2012-06-26 01:11 EDT (History)
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Description Mark Hoffmann CLA 2008-11-24 05:55:20 EST 
BIRT has lots of export targets but lacks of rendering a complete report to a native SWT canvas. 
Current solutions like displaying the report in an embedded Browser are not always acceptable. 
  
Having a SWT canvas as a render target would enable full control for the application as well as a full usage of native printer driver capabilities. Further it would make a sophisticated print preview possible.

We talked with Jason about this topic at the Eclipse Summit Europe 2008