Thanks Iain.

?Why did you choose OLE Automation versus Active X? Any reason?
?Are you accessing your visual foxpro data throught ODBC? Good performance?

Eric.

>Eric
>
>I have found that CR is pretty fast, I use CR6 to creat the report first, then I use OLE Automation to use the report
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>oCrystal=CreateObject('Crystal.CRPE.Application') &&OLE Automation Object
>oReport=oCrystal.OpenReport('shaded2.rpt') &&Report to use
>oReport.database.Verify &&Verify the data, with out user intervenstion
>oReport.Printout(.F.) &&Print the report, with out user intervenstion
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>HTH
>
>also I found some nice hints on there News groups server news.cogniza.com