>Does anybody else find it annoying that the VFP9 report designer is not WYSIWYG?
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>I brought over some reports from FoxPro DOS and it is very frustrating that at design time the table headers are right aligned with figures but at view time they are not! For example the following case:
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>At design time:
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> Hours
> Name Worked Salary
> John Doe 35.50 500.00
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>At run time: The name title and data left align correctly, but the title for Hours and Salary are not right aligned with the data.
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>Also if you have a bunch of labels like this, at run time they are *not* right aligned. Also since the labels are longer ar run time than at design time, if the label is long sometimes it covers part of the corrresponding field value.
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> Number: XXXXXX
> Name: XXXXXXXXXXX
> Address: XXXXXXXXXXX
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If it's a converted report, the converter assumes Courier (i.e. monospaced font) and leaves all the fields left-aligned. If you've picked any other font, the converter doesn't right-align them. You should just select them all in the report editor, and set them to be right-aligned.