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Changing printers programmatically
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09/11/2000 18:38:06
Gad Hutt
Express Print
Herzliya, Israel
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00439583
Message ID:
00440189
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>Hi Cathy,
>It looks loke what I need, but how do I "hack", how do I open the *.frx as a table and browse it's records...?
>Gadi


Gadi,

Enter the following in the command window:
USE myreport.frx
BROWSE
FYI ... FoxPro's reports, forms and classes are really just DBF files in disguise. A report's .FRX and .FRT files are really just .DBF and .FPT files respectively. A screen's .SCX and .SCT files are really just .DBF and .FPT files respectively. And continuing with the pattern here, a class's .VCX and .VCT files are really just .DBF and .FPT files. So whenever someone says to "hack" the report, form or class, what they mean is to open the file as a DBF and browse and manipulate the data manually instead of using the appropriate FoxPro visual tool or designer.

Cathy
Cathy Pountney, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
Memorial Business Systems, Inc. (www.mbs-intl.com)

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