Ok, but...

After making the form appear on the desktop, the report still insists on appear within the FoxPro frame.

Any ideas?

By the way, its VFP5. Don't know if VFP6 would help.


>>Sorry, but how does that from what I've done?
>>
>>How do you create a desktop form?
>>
>
>All you've done is modify the main VFP screen. You need to create a form object and put your preview in in it.
>
>oForm = CREATEOBJECT("Form")
>oForm.WindowState = 2
>oForm.Caption = "Whatever you need to see"
>oForm.Show()
>REPORT FORM (FRXName) WINDOW oForm.Name PREVIEW
>oForm.Release()
>
>
>>>Hi Jason,
>>>Create a DeskTop Form. Size it as required. Instantiate it, but don't show it.
>>>REPORT FORM (FRXName) WINDOW DeskTopForm.Name
>>>
>>>>The minimum monitor resolution we support is 800x600, so I like to develop our simple little apps to maximise to this screen resolution. All is fine except for the reports. How can I use all the screen for the report if your have a greater resolution?
>>>>
>>>>According to the help, the following code should work - but it doesn't. It defines a window in the desktop but displays the report within the FoxPro frame.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>********************************
>>>>on shutdown clear events
>>>>
>>>>with _screen
>>>> .autocenter = .t.
>>>> .windowstate = 0
>>>> .top = 200
>>>> .left = 500
>>>> .height = 500
>>>> .width = 500
>>>>endwith
>>>>
>>>>=inkey(1)
>>>>define window WindowName1;
>>>> from 0, 0 to 25, 25;
>>>> in desktop
>>>>
>>>>activ window WindowName1
>>>>=inkey(1)
>>>>
>>>>use in select("Cursor1")
>>>>create cursor Cursor1 ( Field1 c (1))
>>>>append blank
>>>>replace Field1 with "A"
>>>>
>>>>set safety off
>>>>create report report1 from Cursor1 fields Field1
>>>>set safety on
>>>>
>>>>report form report1 preview window WindowName1 noconsole
>>>>
>>>>deactivate window WindowName1
>>>>
>>>>on shutdown clear events
>>>>read events
>>>>on shutdown
>>>>
>>>>********************************