Thanks for your patience and help in this matter...

I'll try her site...


>I am at the end of my VFP report writer knowledge. I do use FoxFire and like its capabilities. As far as how they do it, I have no ide nor the time to try to wade through all their code [and it is massive]. Probably the best authority on report writing is Lisa Nicholls. You could check out her web site to see if she has any articles on this subject.
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>>IMHO if this total is right then my routine/logic shud return the correct values, but that is not happening...
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>>I don't know what to say & what to ask, but this is simply not solving the problem...
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>>i wonder with so less documentation, how products like foxfire etc. are creating the reports....
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>>Is Vfp 6 providing source code for Report Wizard ?? Pls advs...
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>>>Looks to me like the total length of an 8 1/2 x 11 inch page [standard letter size] is 101,250 points which is the sum of the Height field for ObjType = 9. The width would then be 78238.64 [101250/11 * 8.5]
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>>>>Pls note that Vpos values is always nil in the detail band record....
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>>>>Infact for all the band records only height is given...So its not possible to calculate position of a particular band...
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>>>>Do u know how many points Horizontal and how many points vertical are used in report... Based on that maybe we can calculate..
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>>>>I've done lot of testing in this and looked everywhere where I can find any info. but it is not mentioned anywhere....
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