Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Boilerplate: How to....
Message
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01214814
Message ID:
01214906
Views:
9
>Hello Foxperts,
>
>I am developing a report intended to replace the pre-printed service contract forms that are currently typed.
>
>As is common with contracts, there are large blocks of text (a.k.a. 'boilerplate') that need to be printed on the page along with the two dozen fields such as customer name/address/csz/phone/etc. This text exceeds the 254 character limit for a Label's Caption, and using the Field Properties Expression Builder seems to have a similar limit.
>
>What's a good trick to get 2k-3k of text on the page without resorting to multiple labels or fields?

I would do what Hilmar suggested ... use a memo field. You can create a dummy cursor with one record and fill the memo field with whatever text you need. If you have more than one chunk of text to print, you can create more than one memo field.
Cathy Pountney, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
Memorial Business Systems, Inc. (www.mbs-intl.com)

My Website: (www.frontier2000.com)
My Blog: (www.cathypountney.blogspot.com)
My Book: The Visual FoxPro Report Writer - Pushing it to the Limit and Beyond
Free MSDN Article: What's New in the VFP 9.0 Report Writer
Free MSDN Article: The VFP 9.0 Report Writer In Action
Previous
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform