>How do most of U develop cross tab reports in VFP
>3.0. I have routines which populate big ole
>character 200 fields with pre-formatted data.
>Then I display them on the a VFP report form.
>This approach works fine as long as I use a fixed
>space font like courier. The VFP report
>gernerator, to my knowledge, does not provide a
>mechanism to develop cross tab reports, like
>Crystal Reports or some other report writer
>(R&R?). So, has anyone developed a method to
>perform this menecing task? or Has anyone used a
>third party report writer to interface with VFP
>tables and produce cross tab reports. There has
>to be an easier way to do it than I am currently.
>I also considered using Excel as a report engine.
>I have seen this done by other developers, but it
>sounds a little wierd. Any input is welcome.
>


Visual FoxPro ships with a program called vfpxtab.prg
located in the \VFP subdirectory.

With this program you can do you cross tabulation to a
temporary file and then use the temporary file to
either drive a report or produce screen output.

If you have trouble using it, let me know and I will send
you some sample code.


Chris

Chris