Thanks Mike

Wonder why Maxtab is not in UT downloads.

There is a class called Fastxtab in their which sounds good as well so I am going to have to choose between them.

Does anyone know the main differences between them.







>Hi Mark
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>Val's matxtab has been around for a very long time. Its a beautiful bit of engineering. Once I discovered it, I've never had any desire to use anything else.
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>>Thanks Nadya
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>>I have been meaning to give that program in downloads a go next time I do an xtab.
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>>It sounds excellent .
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>>>Hi Mark,
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>>>Alexander placed in Downloads section file #9944, which works much much faster than VFPXTab. I made few modifications in this program to support totaling option. It still could be improved a little bit, but I would suggest MS to take a look at this algorithm instead of the one, used in VFPXTab...
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>>>BTW, Valdis Matison has a similar program with even more options...
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>>>>John
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>>>>I have to disagree
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>>>>Excel does this job much faster. Perhaps you are factoring in the time it takes to load Excel and are only running on small tables.
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>>>>For large tables it is better to uses anything other than VFPXTAB
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>>>>>A particular case?? The cross-tabulation of data is a fairly generic process. I can't imagine a factor that would make a particular case unique. Perhaps the size of data. Then again, this would go back to the core design of the base program that would be useful in all situations.
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>>>>>Sorry Alexander, I can't agree with your conclusion especially since you have offered no benchmarks to support your conclusion. To say that the program that ships with VFP cannot be slower is a conclusion that simply has no basis. I have used VFPXTAB on many occasions. I have also used Excel via automation for these tasks. Of the two, I'll take the VFP solution.
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>>>>>>Hi!
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>>>>>>>How about the one that ships with the product? VFPXTAB.PRG???
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>>>>>>It's as slow as only possible. Write your own program for particular case.
>>>>>>It not very difficult but will be much faster.
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>>>>>>Alexander