Yes, the direction from Report Designer into an form or class open in Form Designer or Class designer would be much less complicated.

Once you learn how to extract the information from the clipboard (or from the Temp file), FoxPro provides all the tools you need to create objects and their properties in the Form/Class Designer.

Let us know how it goes.

>>>Sorry Jim, I was just kidding, sometimes I cannot resist a bad joke.
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>>It was clear you were. As for bad jokes -- in our family, the phrase is "a joke a minute, a laugh an hour"
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>>Sorry for bringing up religion. That can stir up demons.
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>>BTW -- reverting to the original topic -- I am not so sure about your suggestion, at least going from Form/Class Designer to FRX. My guess is that what is placed in the clipboard is the minimum information about each copied object. Certainly its name, class, class library, and any non-default values/methods -- but not necessarily the default information, some of which may be exactly what is of interest when trying to paste into the FRX.
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>>Furthermore, the request is not to paste into the FRX (updating the file), but rather pasting into the Report Designer. Again, my guess is that posting into the FRX when the report is open in the designer is worthless, since the FRX is re-written when you save it.
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>Hi Jim
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>My interest is more FRX>SCX direction. I would be happy to achieve just that. Both ways would be just great!
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>And finally to explain purpose behind all this;
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>I have some old frx reports which are actually government forms in GREEK! (... and all greek to me {g})
>Lately government updated their forms layouts + added more info to be put. So now I have to rebuild it all. I found easy way to do that
>with Report Sculptor; Converted PDFs > PNGs, put those pngs as underlying bitmaps and all I need are text & amounts
>which are all in that old frx-es. That is far less work then what original forms took to build (Painstakingly re-creating them inside FRX, label by label line by line). Also whenever I have old FRX that I want to rewamp and add some new twists I take FRX and rebuild it as
>form report. Once I have this, those conversions will be more or less snap.
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>For my own use I think I will manage by following Hugo's tip and slightly enhancing my own form builder class.
>I can only wish that I could eventually achieve something more generic and deserving to find place in your Thor menu as that 'Enhanced copy' we spoke before :)
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>Thks+++ Everybody :)