Thanks, Colin. We always remove printer information from the report. We've been doing that for years. I understand about paying a price. But this price seems to high. They've paid a lot of attention to speeding development, but it's not worth it at the cost of runtime sluggishness.
Dana
>Dana -
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>In addition to what the others have said, make sure you are not saving the printer environment information with the report.
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>VFP9 differs from VFP8 in that it referencs some newer printing DLLs in Windows (VFP8 uses some that were deprecated long ago!) and these have a tendency to hit the network looking for network printers when they really don't need to. Removing the printer driver information from the FRX can sometimes make a difference.
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>As for new features vs speed, well, I think every programmer understands that you can't get something for nothing.
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>- Colin
Where's the damned Any Key?...too late