Hi Jim,

Thanks for all the info. You should go to Henztenwerke's website and download the "Errata" for my book. There are a handful of mistakes in the book that are identified in the Errata, including the "Top" issue. I also added some extra "tips" to the Errata that weren't included in the book!

Cathy



>However, in the chapter on Hacking the FRX where you list each field and it's purpose, the info for the TOP field is not necessarly correct. At least not for VFP8 sp1.
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>In your book, it says TOP is always .t. for the report definition record.
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>IN VFP8 SP1, the TOP field in the Report Definition record corresponds to the Print Area found on the Page Setup screen. TOP = .T. means Whole Page, TOP = .f. means Printable Page.
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>Also, in your next book, you might want to mention that if you set the report to print multiple columns and then set the columns to print Left to Right, but then set the columns back to a single column, the Left To Right stays. This has the effect of disabling the Constant Band Height for bands and the float and strech stuff for objects even though they should be available.
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>I found this because I was working on a little utility to convert fpw 2.6 reports to VFP 8 reports without using the VFP converter. One report that I converted had all of the Constant Band Height and Float and Strech stuff disabled and I could not figure out why. It was not in my conversion, it was from when I originally created the report. I obviously started with a report that was a multi column left to right report and somewhere along the way I changed it to a single column report without first changing it back to a top to bottom.
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>So, if you ever have a single column report where all of the Constand Band Heights and Float and Strech are disabled, you know where to look.
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>Thanks again for a great book.
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>Jim McConnell
>Pyramid Software