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To Print or not To Print, that is the question
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
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There's a new SYS() function to get around the WEXIST/NODIALOG issue. SYS(2040) returns a value of "1" if the user is previewing and "2" if the user is printing. Note that it returns a character value .. not a numeric value.

Cathy


>Very clever! But what if you use the new "NODIALOG" feature of VFP8.0, does the WEXIST() technique still work??? I will check it out.
>
>Thanks
>Glenn
>
>>You may use something like this:
>>Add a variable to the report, like 'isprinted', with initial value .f. and value to store wexist("PRINTING").
>>
>>Then check isprinted value after user closed or printed the report.
>>
>>>Is there any way to detect if the user cancelled printing during a preview? In other words can we detect if the door icon on the toolbar was used? I believe in previous versions (FPW) this was possible, but now that my mind is gone I cannot remember the "trick"
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Glenn
Cathy Pountney, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
Memorial Business Systems, Inc. (www.mbs-intl.com)

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