>>A major disadvantage with Cryslat will be not allowing use of VFP expressions.
>>Does Crystal have a way of accessing VFP thru COM? Maybe that would be a solution.
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>Why is that a disadvantage? You can create formulas in Crystal using either Crystal or Basic syntax.

The current reports have direct access to all VFP and application code methods/functions . This means you can reuse application code inside a report by simply calling the method/function of interest. You dont have to recreate specialized methods in yet another language.

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