geoff wrote: > I must admit to being less than impressed with the new vfp9 report > system. When VFP9 was released this was touted as being fantastic and > incredible and the greatest thing since sliced bread. The feature set > underwhelmed me at the time and now that I have tried to implement it > in an existing application with a large number of reports i simply > hate it. First I just set report behaviour to 90 and let it go. of > course at the client site there was no support for the preview or > print engine. I mistakenly thought the build would include such > obvious essentials but no. I finally found what needed to be included > (no thanks to the documentation and thanks to a third party book).
http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/wnvfp9.htm > now of course, the formatting on many reports is wrong with > previously correctly sized fields no longer able to fit correctly. > Then there is my Customer Statements reports which actually go into > an endless loop. Im so thrilled... No problems with my reports here, but admittedly, I'm not using the new multiple detail bands feature as I don't do SET RELATION TO stuff. I create flat cursors and report using those. > > There a few handy features in the new report write. Its a pity it is > such junk for backward compatibility. Well, backwards compatability has been a *strong* point for VFP for years! Look at the non-backward-compatability headaches the VB et al folks had with other M$ languages as they released new versions. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
