>Peter -
>
>Pardon me for butting in,
You're VERY welcome :)
>
>>> [Lisa wrote] about a 'tremendous amount of effort' that was
>> required to (my words/interpretation) replace the old preview
>>> routine. In my opinion that effort was not really successful,
>>> at least in some aspects. Two arguments regarding the design
>>> of the zoomlevel functionality:
>>>
>>> - The 'fit to window' zoomlevel should never have been given
>>> the number 10. Instead, a negative number would have been
>>> better.
>>>
>>> - Instead of 1-9, values 10-500 (for the time being) is better.
>>> So, a percentage. If there's a practical problem with certain
>>> percentages/values, the internal routine can easily round up
>>> or down, again, for the time being.
>
>You're entitled to your opinion, Peter. I'm sure the VFP team are reading this thread so I'm sure your ideas will be given due respect.
I'm glad you allow me to have an opinion.
>Fortunately for us, VFP 9.0 really has busted report preview wide open in terms of what creative people will be able to implement and hook into the product and their applications. I guarantee that you'll see some drop-in replacements that remedy the deficiencies of the current xbase preview application.
>
>Will you be going to the Frankfurt conference in November?
No, but at the end of this month both Alan Yair Griver and Ken Levy will be talking about vfp(9) at only 2 kilometers distance from where I live.
Groet,
Peter de Valença
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