>>I've defined a UDF as a method in a form which will run a report, the UDF will be called from the report field expression, it can work in preview(REPORT FORM
PREVIEW) but couldn't work when send to printer(REPORT FORM TO PRINTER), instead of printing the correct figure, it print the format string.(eg. 9,999,999.99).
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>>If I create a variable in report writer, the expression of the variable is the UDF, when I used the variable with some calculation, an error message "Data type miss match" will be given when running the report.
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>I've had this problem in vfp5 when running some reports from toolbar, menu, pageframe/pages > 1, and with UDFs. There is some odd scope problem (it seems) that I didn't have before vfp5. The common symptom is Preview always works, but printing has trouble with some variables. There are several workarounds (some mentioned by others) to use...
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>I think they worked too hard on correcting Preview bugs and forgot to test all the printing. (s)