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   History of QR and what makes each version different
When Quick Reports was first created, as the author Allan Lochert admitted, it was a simple report writer without any major features. That it did as much as it did in 5000 lines of Code is a tribute to Allan as well as the Delphi product. When QR 2.0 was created, it was a complete rewrite of the product with some major changes in design logic as well as new features. Therefore when converting from 1.0 to 2.0, many complex reports would not make the switch. QR also suffered from the need for many bug fixes before it became a stable product. (Currently the last version released is 2.0K.)

The major change between QR1 and QR2 is the creation of a QR component which is the surface of the report. In QR1 you used the surface of the form itself as the printed canvas. In the QR2 documentation there is an appendix which helps programmers convert reports from QR1 to QR2. The major problems stem from the way the original QR handled grouping. With the new version, there are different ways that the grouping was done and therefore new TQRGroup bands need to be used.

When Delphi 4 was released it contained a not ready for prime time version of QR which did not help QuSoft's reputation at all. With revisions (The latest version is 3.07) this product has become more stable as well and Delphi 5 did not come with a major revision of Quick Reports.

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