you have 2 options
1 which you already got
2. if you can REPORT .. NOWAIT
you can then ACTIVATE WINDOW your preview toolbar and report from in your TOP level form (or in another top level form

Arnon



>Here's what I'm trying to do but I can't get it to work:
>
>1. Run an applicaton without the main VFP Window
>2. Run reports with a preview option
>
>Seems simple enough, but I can't get it to work.
>
>In Config.FPW
> SCREEN=OFF
>---------------
>With the command REPORT FORM PREVIEW, nothing shows up because it is trying to print to the _SCREEN
>-------------------
>I tried this:
> DEFINE WINDOW ppreview FROM 1, 1 TO 20, 60 GROW FLOAT SYSTEM ZOOM IN DESKTOP
>
> REPORT FORM PastDue PREVIEW WINDOW ppreview
>
>and I get nothing again. No window shows up, it acts like it prints somewhere and program execution continues as if it had printed.
>-------------
>Then I tried creating a form with SHOWWINDOW=1 (or 2) with:
>
>(created a form class with SHOWWINDOW=1 called ppform)
>
>=PrevWind('Past Due Accounts')
>REPORT FORM PastDue PREVIEW WINDOW wShowInq
>wShowInq.Release()
>
>FUNCTION PREVWIND
>LPARAMETERS tcTitle
>
>IF PCOUNT() = 0
> tcTitle = 'Report Preview'
>ENDIF
>
>wShowInq = CREATEOBJECT('ppForm')
>wShowInq.Name = 'wShowInq'
>wShowInq.Caption = tcTitle
>wShowInq.Show()
>RETURN
>
>With this code:
>IF I give the Form Class ppForm property of DESKTOP=.T. and SHOWWINDOW=1 or 2, I get a blank Form and Print Preview prints to some other unknown window.
>IF I change to DESKTOP=.F. then I get nothing to show on the screen, however, in the development environment it works.
>
>Can anyone tell me how to get the Print Preview into a Window which shows up while SCFEEN=OFF?
>
>TIA