All of your steps look fine.

What is the value of the _REPORTPREVIEW variable? It should point to the ReportPreview.App program in you HOME() directory.

If that variable looks okay, then it may be a problem with your printer setup (especially because of the behavior you mentioned in the Print dialog. Can you print with REPORTBEHAVIOR=80?

As far as "faster response", I've heard too many stories about bad REPORTBEHAVIOR 90 performance, and about certain problems it has rendering output in the preview (columns not lining up, etc). I'm staying away from it for now and just using the 80 behavior.

--Brad

>This is my first time trying VFP9 report and having a hard time. Here is what I did:
>-Set enginebehavior to 90.
>-Ran an SQL and got 8556 records to report on
>CREATE REPORT blahblah.frx FROM ALIAS() form
>modi report blahblah.frx
>-Only changed one of the character fields to trim to the nearest word and add ellipsis
>-Right clicked and selected 'Print Preview'
>
>It took almost 1.5 mins for creating the output but after it is finished I see nothing. I tried 'Run report' and got a 'Printers' dialog. It was ill behaving (shows partial labels, icons under 'General' tab and as I move the cursor it loses them and shows buttons like 'Print', 'Cancel' ... if mouse is at their location).
>
>What is the trick to have a simple print preview (if behavior is 90)?
>Is there a setting or something like that I should do to get a faster response or is it by design?
>TIA.
>Cetin