True, g'day! I'm Alistair Christie from learndelphil.tv. In this video, we are going to look at building a report. In fact, we're going to build an application, but we're never actually going to compile it. It's sort of an interesting proposition. What I have here is a list of randomly generated names. We want to print these names onto a page, cut them out, and slip them into little plastic name tag holder things. This is a little application I had to write recently. Now, I received a Word document in a table. It was not as neatly formatted as this. In fact, there are a number of tables and a bit of a mess. But anyway, the first thing we want to do is convert this to CSV. We can do that reasonably readily in LibreOffice. We can go to table, convert a table to text. I'm going to make it comma delimited. Then, I presume I can save this as text. Music text, that's plain text. Just in case. We'll call this names.csv. Hopefully, there's an editor.txt on the end. Okay, so now we're going to go over to Delphi. Let's just create a new VCL Windows application. In fact, before you do that, you need to go into Tools, Get It Package Manager. We want to install Fast Reports because we want some sort of reporting engine. You get a sort of free version of Fast Reports with Delphi, and I've already installed it. I've installed the VCL version. You could equally well install the Fire Monkey version. Installed, and basically just click on that, go install it. It requires a restart of Delphi, but that's fine. We want to add an IFRX report. Now, we somehow need to get data into this report. For that, we'll use an...
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