>>>I think that my printer (CANON LBP-465) has its own "windows printing system", and this system do not support the printer TO FILE. Something about this is in the help of the printer. I emailed the CANON about this problem...i'm waiting
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>>mpagetot=0
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>>Repo form My_report noconsole
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>>mpagetot _pageno
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>>repo form My_report to print noconsole
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>>This is where you set the Page # out of to:
>>"Page # "+alltrim(str( _pageno )) ' out of ' +alltrim(str( mpagetot))
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>Ok Stephen,your code works fine:I just had to skip "TO FILE".
>But I have to say that not always _pageno returns the right number of pages.
>For example,if you put at the bottom of the detail bar an edit box with "strech with overflow" checked and the edit box needs two pages,the real page number is 2 but _pageno returns only 1.
Yes I am aware of that and I got burned with it too. It's a FP screw up and it's not going away in the near future.
Power Builder is right on the money with Total # of pages in their report writer. Hey Mickey Soft are you going to get beat by Sybase?
__Stephen
