Thanks a lot guys for showing interest in helping me find a way to be able to print a grid as it looks on a form with all its colours. Here I provide a link to a picture of the colored grid on its containing form (this link works now) as it looks on the screen.

And yes Arnon, issuing a printscreen would definitely miss all the columns that are hidden from sight. I thought about if there was a way to capture the grid as an object and sending it via OLE or any other form to the report designer, process that I would have no idea where to start. I think the outcome of this thread mght help many, as I have talked to Michel Fournier and other colleagues and they're already waiting for the solution to this problem. More ideas?

Thanks again.


>Gilberto,
>someone in this forum described (about 2-3 month ago) a way to simulate printscreen programatically
>basically it is a matter of issung a printscreen key stroke and pasting the form to a general field , then printing a report on that
>in your case , you may be able to lock the desktop, create a form with the grid alone and print it
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>Arnon
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>>The app I'm writing is basically a model where the data on a table (that can vary in column count depending on the model picked up by the grid) has properties that simulate the behaviour of a pile of coal. There are only 8 lines(records) used on the table at all times. Now, the different colors represent different types of coal (chemical composition, etc.) and each box in the grid represents 200 tons of coal. So, the resulting map is what is required to be printed. To be more specific this is the grid as it looks on a form. Would there be any way to use the report designer to bring the grid to it, or any other way? Any ideas, or suggestions are greatly appreciated? (Print screen cannot be used).
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>>Thanks in advance.