Rich, I thought it looked excellent and definitely a product worth acquiring. I am concerned about your pricing plans though. Afterall, VFP Professional is 549.00

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/prodinfo/purchase/pricing.asp

and that puts your tool outside of the language's cost even. I'm not saying it's not worth it, just concerned that some manager's may balk at the price if the tool is even more costly than the language itself. A frequent problem with frameworks and they are well worth the cost also!


>Doug,
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>> The control works great (at least in the Web page)! A few questions:
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>> - Do you have pricing set yet?
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>Pricing is still being debated at this time. However, somewhere between $500 and $800 depending on versions/features for Desktop use.
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>> - When do you expect to release the final version?
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>I'm planning on releasing the final version before DEVCON along with the VFP Report Engine Class to load the reports into the control.
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>> - How do you define the output? I understand you're working on a separate control
>> to send a VFP FRX to it, and really would like to see that.
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>You can download a copy of the control and place it onto a VFP form and try it out. That's the best way to play with it to see what it can do. It just prints the Demo Watermark on the PDF Output and on the Report Preview. It probably does too much stuff at the moment. But I added some features that I wanted like the Calendar Overlay for making Photo Calendars for the family. I just thought it was cool to do. That didn't take but about 3 hours as opposed to the hundreds of hours for the PDF Output. All my VFP Report Engine Class does is process an FRX just as the real VFP Report Engine would but my output calls the methods on my control to load the output into it. This way you get a Static Report Preview and no unwanted calls to UDFs will be made during Preview. Then there isn't a second pass on the data to print it out either. Additionally, the Report Preview doesn't go away if you wanted to print some pages and then jump somewhere else in the report and print some more pages. You tell
>it when to close or the end user does by closing your form.
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>Let me know if you find any bugs. I'm still perfecting the curvature output on Rounded Rectangles in PDF and slightly correcting the DASH/DOT lengths for printed and PDF output to match perfectly. Perfectionists don't make good programmers because they find it hard to release a product! <bg>