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New VFP 9.0 to have these features?
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19/03/2004 12:15:35
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00885070
Message ID:
00887974
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Lisa,

I'm not saying it wouldn't. Jozef said he can't rely on 3rd parties to get it right. I was pointing out that you can't rely on MS to get it right either.

I'm also aware that VFP 9 will make this much easier...and that it could be done in previous versions.


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>Um.... what makes you think that it would not, Craig?
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>It is possible without pain *or* cost to handle FoxPro reports -> PDF *without* any sacrifice of report features or difference in the layout.
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>And this has been possible since VFP 7.
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>I say this without caveats or qualifications about the "complexity" of the report.
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>It takes some work to do, yes. But I'm doing it today in production applications. In VFP 7. In reports that are complex in layout, that are concatenated from several different types with different orientations, etc, and that -- just BTW -- were written in FoxPro 2.x Windows.
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>VFP 9 will make it a whole lot easier to do this and a lot more seamless from the Xbase developer's POV but the tools have been in front of you all the time.
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>>L<
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer
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