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Use of THIS in a report
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
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00570893
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>Hi Larry,
>
>Aparently there's a bit more to reports than meets the eye.
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>As Sylvain mentioned, from a report you have access to all the local variables of the entity that called it.
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>You can also refer to the report's dataenvironment object by using the report's name. i.e. MyReportName.tag. I haven't tried calling de methods from report variables, but I don't see why it couldn't be done.
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>I've been doing some very neat things with this, such as having standalone reports to which I can pass parameters (as local variables).
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>I think there's a lot of potential there...
>

Hi Alex,
Very likely. I talked to Calvin H. and Mike S. in Orlando about the Report Writer. They were saying that there is nothing that they have wanted to do that they couldn't using VFP's Report Writer. Well since they probably know all the little secrets like this, I can more understand why. < bg >
Larry Miller
MCSD
LWMiller3@verizon.net

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. -- Mingjiao
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