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14/06/2004 13:45:25
Emmanuel Huybrechts
Technimeca International Corp.
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Visual FoxPro Beta
Miscellaneous
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00913246
Message ID:
00913569
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>What is interesting is that the ZoomLevel = 10 compute a percent to fit the window. So it really shouldn't be that difficult for the VFPT to let us access any zoom level we want.
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>VFPT *has* let you do what you want to do. What you're saying here is that the shipping Xbase preview component (REPORTPREVIEW.APP) does not happen to provide this ability.
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Could you elaborate on this ? From what I read in the readme, this limitation is in the API not in the ReportPreview.App.


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>Let's hope they will change that for the final release.
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>It's certainly possible, but not likely.
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>A tremendous amount of effort, both native and Xbase, was required in this development cycle to break out the preview and other rendering elements from the engine and to provide appropriate Xbase ways for you to do this type of thing. And, as I've stated on other threads, to make all the aspects of the reporting process that were broken out from the engine follow the same OOP paradigm you use in other parts of VFP.
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>This was the goal, and this goal has been accomplished.
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>IOW, the point of the shipping _REPORTPREVIEW was to provide access to these features, not be "THE VFP preview".
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>Somebody else asked me for examples in this d/l. _REPORTPREVIEW and the listener classes you'll find in FFC\_reportlistener.vcx *are* actually examples of the kinds of things you would like to do and they show you how much is possible.
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>They are very sophisticated examples, but even so you are not limited by them.
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