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24/05/2006 15:43:49
 
 
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23/05/2006 17:12:18
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01124396
Message ID:
01124660
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11
Boban,

>Can I find some tutorial on web about new features in reports in VFP9, because Help is completely useless! There are great improvemenets in VFP9 concerning reports and some really cool stuff, but that is useless without good Help about that, which Microsoft (as usuall) didn't worry about!

As Colin noted, there is lots of good in-depth material in the VFP9 help file about the new Report System -- pages and pages and pages of it, in fact. In my opinion, the new Report System is probably better documented in the help file than any other new feature to have ever appeared in VFP.

However, you might benefit from reading what other have written about it, too. Here are a few links to get you started:

Cathy Pountney article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen9/html/VFP9Reports2.asp

Report Listener sample code: http://reportlistener.com/files

Chapters 5, 6 and 7 from the FREE online version of Hentzenwerke's "New In Nine" book:
http://foxcentral.net/microsoft/WhatsNewInVFP9_Chapter05.htm
http://foxcentral.net/microsoft/WhatsNewInVFP9_Chapter06.htm
http://foxcentral.net/microsoft/WhatsNewInVFP9_Chapter07.htm

You'll also find numerous articles at FoxTalk (www.pinpub.com) over the past two years, although some of them are for subscribers only. Some, however, are free (at least they were the last time I looked). Search the FoxTalk site for "HTMLListener", "XMLListener", "ReportListener", and "GDI+" -- some of the many GDI+ articles deal with not only the _gdiplus.vcx ffc classes, but also how to use them in reports, and those explanations (the GDI+ series by Walter Nicholls) will reveal even more about how reportlisteners work.
David Stevenson, MCSD, 2-time VFP MVP / St. Petersburg, FL USA / david@topstrategies.com
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