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Fomin Report Builder🔗

Flexible runtime report building for Clarion applications—either by developers and/or end users.

Fomin Report Builder (FRB) is a powerful runtime reporting engine designed for Clarion for Windows. With deep integration into Clarion (ABC and Legacy) FRB gives your applications a second wind—letting users create and customize their own reports without touching source code.

Whether you're an independent developer maintaining legacy systems or a corporate team extending Clarion-based solutions, FRB bridges the gap between developer efficiency and end-user autonomy.

✨ Why FRB?🔗

  • Empower users: Let non-technical users design, format, and filter their own reports at runtime.
  • No royalties: Distribute the FRB DLL freely with your compiled applications.
  • Multi-language support: Built-in English and Russian UI, with full localization via FRB_NLS.INI.
  • ABC and Legacy friendly: Complete support for both Clarion template chains.
  • Modern design ethos: Familiar Word-like layout controls make users feel right at home.

📦 Documentation🔗

This documentation is a modernized and expanded guide to everything FRB can do, including:

  • ✨ Feature Highlights: Explore the full list of user-facing features, layout controls, data handling tools, and extensibility options built into FRB.
  • 🛠 Installation and Setup: How to register templates, deploy DLLs, and add FRB to your project.
  • 🧑‍💻 Developer Guide: Learn how to integrate FRB with your application's data and templates.
  • ✍️ Using FRB: Empowering end-users to build and manage reports, with helpful tips and screenshots.
  • 🧩 Components: Dive deep into RBC-library, the FRBC template set, ReportManager, and more.
  • 📚 Glossary: Definitions and examples of FRB terminology and report elements.
  • 🙋 Support: Community resources, FAQs, and direct contact with the original developer.

🔍 What Makes FRB Different?🔗

Unlike static report procedures that bloat application binaries and rely on developers to make every change, FRB stores report forms as .rpt files—compact, independent, and user-editable. Reports can be designed, exported, imported, printed, and sorted without recompiling anything.

Whether you're managing hundreds of reports or granting on-site teams independence, FRB reduces turnaround time and increases application longevity.

📜 License & Availability🔗

FRB 1.5a for Clarion 2.0 is Freeware. Commercial versions for Clarion 4 and 5 (ABC and Legacy) are available for purchase directly from the official site.

🛫 Ready to Build Reports?🔗

Jump to Installation & Setup to get started—or explore what sets FRB apart in the Feature Overview.

“A report designer that feels like Word, works like Clarion, and delivers like clockwork.”