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Report Designer Default Font
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00180864
Message ID:
00180920
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>>>>>>>I have two questions about the report designer which are really just minor annoyances.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>1. How do you set the default Font permanently so that when the report designer starts the font you want is selected.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>2. How do you get the "Report Controls Toolbar" and the "Layout toolbar" to automatically open when you create or modify a report.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Karl Scheff
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1) When you're in the Report Designer, the Report menu pull down, Default Font option.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>2) You must be using the resource file (FOXUSER) to have these automatically open. (and that's only if you haven't closed them before you exit the report designer) They can be re-opened with the View menu pulldown, Toolbars option.
>>>>>
>>>>>For 1: As far as I've seen, that only sets it for that report. Every time I go into the designer it wants to do courier no matter how many times I set the default font.
>>>>>
>>>>>-Michelle
>>>>
>>>>I don't know of any way to change the default font for NEW reports. It does keep the default font set any time you try to modify an existing report. Separate reports can each have their own default.
>>>
>>>I don't know any way, either. It would be nice if there was.
>>>
>>>-Michelle
>>
>>Here's an idea: I have created a standard report template that I set the font in, and then I just make a copy of the report every time I want to create a new one.
>
>I was thinking of doing something like that. I wish there was a way to make a report class that has certain properties and then all the other reports would be children of that report.
>
>-Michelle

Yes it would. This is definitely an area in VFP that is lacking OOP.

Doug Stalter

"According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult." -Plutarch
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