>>>Hi,
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>>>I am starting as a foxpro developper and I have a question (a look in the FAQ of the knowledge base did not give me an answer...):
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>>>I am printing a report with the report writer, including group footers, summary footer, etc. I would like to have the same result on screen and be able to scroll the results in a practical way. The report is used in the query dialog box as the "form name" to be used in output. To have the result on screen, I can use the "print preview" option instead of the "to print" option, but the result is not satisfying since I either see too much or too little (with the zoom in / zoom out buttons).
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>>>I tried mentionning the report writer form name in the output dialog box of the query, and specifying "to console". The result is exactly like the printed report writer form, but it can not be scrolled...
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>>>I hope my question is clear enough !
>>>
>>>Thanks a lot for your support.
>>>
>>>Yvan St-Cyr
>>>Montreal,Canada
>>>jf591834@er.uqam.ca
>>Yvan,
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>>The Preview is a match to the printed page and therefore will never be what you are looking for because the paper may be 8.5 inches wide while the monitor is not that big. To get what you want you could send the report ot a file and desing a form to display that file. My preference would be to design a fomr that uses the same data source and displays the data similarly to the report.
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>>Remember the REPORT DESIGNER designs printed pages, teh FORM DESIGNER designs display forms. If you try to use a hammer to put it a screw it won't be the same as if you used a screw driver.
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>The idea of sending the report.frx to a file sounds great, but the RQBE Display options dialog box only permits "to printer" as an output destination (the "to file " check box is faded). That would have been the easiest way I guess. So I will try the form designer, since the users would not appreciate the idea of using the print preview command offered by Microsoft.
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>Thank you all very much for your help.
>
>Yvan


You can also try foxword... (transfers report to a rtf file...)