>>to all:
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>>foxtalk this month had an involved article on using crystal reports with foxpro
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>>does anyone have any comments, additions, or warnings about this article?
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>>thanks in advance
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>IMO, the article was pretty bad. I wrote to Whil and the author about it.
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>- The author continually discusses "OCX" and then clearly uses syntax for creating an automation server.
>- The author discusses using parameters to the report. This is fine when you have a single report, but one of the powerful features of Crystal is using sub-reports. Parameters don't work there. I've spent hours on the phone with Seagate Software tech support trying to do this. They admitted that it doesn't work. Same with defining the data file location at runtime. It has to be where you specify it.
>- Why is the author playing around with the VB installer? There is a help file that ships with CR that tells you all the files you need to distribute.


IMO the article was pretty good in that it described a method the author said worked. And he was humble enough to state that if anyone had a better approach he would like to hear it. It is so hard for these magazines to get experts to write these things that I think we should not beat up on someone too badly if after published it is discovered that other silent types have a much better approach.