Antonio,

>I am using Crystal Reports 7.0 to generate VFP reports in my application. For that purpose I am using Crystal Report´s activeX control embedded in my forms. The bad news is that CR´s activeX control takes some time to load, delaying the display of the forms that use it.
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>Does anyone have a suggestion of how to optimize the loading time ?

I don't use the ActiveX control, because the automation server provides much more control, but the folowing trick might be usable for you:

Drop the activeX control on an form (in my case: an applic form) which is invisible during runtime (put a NODEFAULT in the show event). Whenever you need a CR report, reference the activeX control on this invisible form like:

WITH Applic.CrReportControl
     .reportname =  ...
     .action = ....
ENDWITH

This way the activecontrol is loaded only once and doesn't hurt displaying performance of forms which wants to reference a report.

Walter,