>I've been using Crystal since version 6, started with the ActiveX control, then using the CRPE comm object, later the other COM object model, but I'm not quite sure what you mean.
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>Perhaps, that with the CRPE com object model you had to use the FOXHWND ActiveX control to show the report on a VFP form. In the later COM object you could use the CRVIEWER control, which I still use up to today.
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>But again, VFP windows ARE real windows. Just check in SPY++ you can see the windows and the messages it receives. Its the VFP controls that are bitmaps.

I believe that was it, with the CRPE engine I had to use the foxhwnd control, and there was some loss of functionality (there was some kind of event postback or event delegation capability for clicking on hot spots that worked in VB but not in VFP). Was 17-18 years go...my memory is foggy :)