Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Converting DOS report to VFP
Message
From
11/10/2005 10:51:15
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01057933
Message ID:
01057956
Views:
16
Any conversion will require adjustments. I agree with Yuri - keeping the report in FoxPro-DOS is the best option, especially if you want to keep the formatting. Assuming it still works in VFP 9.

Note: Like any printing in text-mode, this will not work on GDI printers. See Ed Rauh's comments on the "GDI crap".

>Hi everybody,
>
>We have the following problem (quoting my manager now):
>===================================================================
>We converted (actually VFP did it automatically) the DOS UB92 form (pink form) to VFP. The problem that we are having is vertical spacing. It is not allowing us to control the number of lines per inch that the printer uses. In DOS days you could send a control sequence to the printer to control that or you could specify that in the report layout. There doesn’t seem to be a way in VFP to do that.
>
>We need to be able to either specify the # of lines per inch and/or remove/ignore the VFP control codes that it seems to put into the form.
>=======================================================================
>Does anyone here have a similar experience? How did you solve the problem? It's very important for us to have this form printed exactly as we were printing it in DOS version.
>
>Thanks a lot in advance.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform