Hi jeff,

I haven't used CR 8.0 in production, but from some experiments I learned it has not changed much from 7.0 though....

>IT SUCKS!
>Using Crystal Reports is like reaching around your Butt to get to your elbow. Ver. 8 is Buggy. Align won’t, most of the time, but Align will resize.

Aligning is done with the TABs in the rulers. This very different from the aligning tools we have in VFP. But when you get use to it, you'll learn it is not that bad at all. You can snap an object to the TABs on all sides. E.g. If you snap it to both the left tab and the rigth tab, you can resize the object by moving the TABs. These tabs have advantages too, the can align text object of different sizes to print at the same baseline (Well try that one in the VFP report writer !!).


>Resize won’t, most of the time, but resize will move things.

Disable the snap to grid option and things get a bit better. Further if you zoom in to 200% the objects are a bit better to handle.

>Charts move within their container when you save the form.

Hmmm... must be a CR 8.0 bug. I Haven't seen that one in VR 7.0.

>I have found no way of changing a data field reference, other than delete it then add the new one.

That's true. You cannot change the objects 'datasource', however, if it is bound to a formulafield, you can easely change the formula.

>Drop a data field on the report then put a border on it, do this several time, with the same field. Borders will come out different sizes. They say they are the same size; they look the same size, in design time. View or print and low and behold one or two of them will be just a hair or two off. You don’t have enough resolution to change the width of the offending field to the correct amount.

Even if you zoom into 400% ?

>Cut and Paste work really weird. I have yet to figure out how, when you have multiple objects to paste, how it decides where to start.

Yeah, this one needs serious enhancements. You cannot copy and paste more than one object at once.

>You hit paste; you get ONE box where your cursor is on the report. You click, sometimes it goes up from where you are, and sometimes it goes down.

Doesn't it have something to do with the TABs and/or grid settings ??

>When you select lots of stuff to move, it does not move them all at the same time, looks sort of like the little train that could. First object pulls the next object; just don’t click before everything stops.

I haven't seen this before. It Seems I'll have to stay with CR 7.0 !

Walter,