>Hi,
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>I've encountered a problem in trying to print a report from within a form. I've done this a million times and can't understand what would cause this problem.
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>The command is: Report Form Errrept Preview
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>Simple, huh? It executes just fine from the Command Window. It's counterpart to this routine (Report Form Errrept to Printer NoConsole) executes perfectly.
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>I believe it has something to do with the form properties. The properties that could affect this situation are: Alwaysontop = .T. (Which I set to .F. before executing the Report Form instruction), and ShowWindow as Top Level Form . I believe it has to do with the ShowWindow property, however, if I don't leave it as a Top Level Form, when my form is called, it appears behind the calling form. How can I get around this without altering the ShowWindow property (if that is in fact my problem)?
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>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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>TIA
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Hi Barry,

As Jim mentioned unless you provide a window (form) for the preview, it won't work because the default is in _SCREEN and it's not visible with this.

What I did was to subclass a form for this purpose, setting it as a top-level form. Then to print the report:

SET CLASSLIB TO SDIClass ADDITIVE
oPreviewFrm = CREATEOBJECT("PreviewForm")
RELEASE CLASSLIB SDIClass
REPORT FORM (report file) ENVIRONMENT NOCONSOLE PREVIEW IN WINDOW (oPreviewFrm.Name)

hth,