>>>>I want to give my users access to the standard options that appear in the View menu when you are modifying a report. Before the modify report I am issuing a SET SYSMENU TO _MSM_VIEW. From the command window this works great, but when I am running from an exe the View menu is there but has nothing under it.
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>>>>The 2 options in the View menu that I am most interested in are: 'Grid Lines' and 'Show Position', neither of which I can figure out how to do myself without using the built in behaviour from the View menu.
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>>>Some features are not available outside of the foxpro environment (in a compiled EXE). This appears to be one of them.
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>>It appears that is the case...bummer!
>>I just hope they don't decide to pull out the entire ability to modify reports in future releases of foxpro !
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>Huh? Do you mean that it is possible to ship an EXE that has the report builder built in?


Absolutely! Our apps use it that way all the time.