>>Hi,
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>>How do you (by hacking FRX file) find out the height of the report Summary Band? Also, which field identifies that the report has the Summary Band? The reason I am asking is I want to add a Summary Band to a report at run-time. But first, add it at design time and get some information about it.
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>>TIA.
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>A FRX file is basically a DBF file. I believe there's some documentation that came with VFP describing the structure. By manipulating the FRX as a DBF, it should be possible to do things like add/remove elements, resize things, etc One warning however -- it might make you feel you've jumped down a rabbit hole(*).
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>(*) and yeah, I've done some code involving resizing of items -- sort'a got "forced" into this when I'd realized in VFP6 some bands (e.g. page footer, report summary) can not be set to expand/contract dynamically (while in VFP9 you could) -- since the program in question was in VFP6, I needed to write code that could "massage" the FRX at runtime (i.e. modify it to resize/reposition the elements). Currently trying to rework some of that code because the code I was using only worked if the program is working in interactive mode (i.e. with a U/I -- the code doesn't work right if running in non-interactive mode such as within a DLL). I suspect that this has to do with the code not running with a proper device context (i.e. since it's not running with a U/I, any code that may be trying to query font and text metrics will probably not return expected results).

Thank you.