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22/10/2004 10:52:45
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00952356
Message ID:
00953792
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13
Srdjan,

>Make Library :)

I wrote my own higher level printer language *bg*, that got interpretted by VFP to PCL.

It was much lighterweight (bytes/page sent to the printer) than either a VFP frx based report or a PDF.

>I wrote fully OOP reporting engine (classes) for writing reports in code!
>(See CodeRep here in downloads u mind find it interesting)
>
>It would be much nicer, instead of you having to break your guts,
>to have it as part of VFP! With preview possibility on top of it!
>
>I posted it here as wish, but no one seems to care for that :(
>I even got negative mark on it (Means 'I disagree completely' ??)
>
>Point is, that having possibility to write and control laser printers
>directly from VFP - would make reporting virtualy unlimited!
>
>
>Let say, now (After I purchased PDFL from eqeus.com) I can do all that with PDF. Standard reports, completely nonstandard reports. Write across, vertical , on the edge of the page, totalling in code ,detail bands as u wish, 15 reports chained together - u name it! It is just (OOP) code!
>
>I am simply impressed with all that freedom of doing things
>EXACTLY as you want them!
>
>Now that VFP9 is here and many new things are there,
>maybe this wld be the first next thing :))
>
>(It is in human nature to hope :) )
df (was a 10 time MVP)

df FoxPro website
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