Colin,

Pardon me for replying one more time. The first time I didn't realize that you are related (husband?!) to Lisa. And only after reading Cathy Pountney's fine article in the new Foxtalk I got the impression that you and Lisa have had special influence on the new Report Writer. Cathy writes: "I'd like to thank the entire Fox team, as well as Colin Nicholls and Lisa Slater Nicholls, for the major effort that went into this release!"
Could you or Lisa elaborate on this a bit? I'm interested. Thanks.


>Peter -
>
>Pardon me for butting in,
>
>>> [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.
>
>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?
>
>- Colin