Printing a BMP bitmap

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Hello all and thanks in advance for the help.

How do you print a bitmap where the bitmap that you will be printing is to
be decided at runtime? Can you use the VFP report writer? Is there another
way? Thanks.

Jeff
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Re: Printing a BMP bitmap by Altman

Altman
Fri May 06 09:47:14 CDT 2005

I just use mspaint.exe myfile.bmp /p This will only work if they have
MSPaint on their computer but because it defaults to being installed on a PC
I felt it was safe to assume this would work anywhere I needed it.

"Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
news:117moeb22n11m86@news.supernews.com...
> Hello all and thanks in advance for the help.
>
> How do you print a bitmap where the bitmap that you will be printing is to
> be decided at runtime? Can you use the VFP report writer? Is there another
> way? Thanks.
>
> Jeff
>


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Re: Printing a BMP bitmap by Eric

Eric
Fri May 06 10:14:11 CDT 2005

Just drop a Picture/Ole Bound control to your report and set "Picture from"
to File and then specify the BMP. If you like, you can also specify a memvar
or a UDF().
--
Eric den Doop
www.foxite.com - The Home Of The Visual FoxPro Experts - Powered By VFP8

"Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
news:117moeb22n11m86@news.supernews.com...
> Hello all and thanks in advance for the help.
>
> How do you print a bitmap where the bitmap that you will be printing is to
> be decided at runtime? Can you use the VFP report writer? Is there another
> way? Thanks.
>
> Jeff
>


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Re: Printing a BMP bitmap by Jeff

Jeff
Fri May 06 10:49:48 CDT 2005

Sorry to post this in two places, I hope you see it in one of them. Thanks,
Jeff

Eric,

I tried this. The report "seems" to remember the first picture that it is
given to print and each time you print it or preview it the same picture is
shown.

I did the following:

I set code to output the form image to c:\curform.bmp

My code to call the report is:
IF FILE("C:\CURFORM.BMP")
ERASE C:\CURFORM.BMP
ENDIF
<code to create the curform.bmp file>
REPORT FORM MyReport TO PRINT PREVIEW

The report always displays the same image regardless of what I do to the
form. This is in spite of the fact that the image has been deleted from the
disk and replaced with a different one.

Do you know why this is happening?

Thanks,
Jeff

"Eric den Doop" <ericdendoop@xspamblockxfoxite.com> wrote in message
news:ODThw3kUFHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Just drop a Picture/Ole Bound control to your report and set "Picture
> from"
> to File and then specify the BMP. If you like, you can also specify a
> memvar
> or a UDF().
> --
> Eric den Doop
> www.foxite.com - The Home Of The Visual FoxPro Experts - Powered By VFP8
>
> "Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
> news:117moeb22n11m86@news.supernews.com...
>> Hello all and thanks in advance for the help.
>>
>> How do you print a bitmap where the bitmap that you will be printing is
>> to be decided at runtime? Can you use the VFP report writer? Is there
>> another way? Thanks.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>
>


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Re: Printing a BMP bitmap by Eric

Eric
Fri May 06 12:44:14 CDT 2005

Try a UDF. I found a sample in our Forum archives.
http://www.foxite.com/uploads/_2215n38q.zip
--
Eric den Doop
www.foxite.com - The Home Of The Visual FoxPro Experts - Powered By VFP8

"Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
news:117n4hs1kljkq61@news.supernews.com...
> Sorry to post this in two places, I hope you see it in one of them.
> Thanks, Jeff
>
> Eric,
>
> I tried this. The report "seems" to remember the first picture that it is
> given to print and each time you print it or preview it the same picture
> is
> shown.
>
> I did the following:
>
> I set code to output the form image to c:\curform.bmp
>
> My code to call the report is:
> IF FILE("C:\CURFORM.BMP")
> ERASE C:\CURFORM.BMP
> ENDIF
> <code to create the curform.bmp file>
> REPORT FORM MyReport TO PRINT PREVIEW
>
> The report always displays the same image regardless of what I do to the
> form. This is in spite of the fact that the image has been deleted from
> the
> disk and replaced with a different one.
>
> Do you know why this is happening?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> "Eric den Doop" <ericdendoop@xspamblockxfoxite.com> wrote in message
> news:ODThw3kUFHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Just drop a Picture/Ole Bound control to your report and set "Picture
>> from"
>> to File and then specify the BMP. If you like, you can also specify a
>> memvar
>> or a UDF().
>> --
>> Eric den Doop
>> www.foxite.com - The Home Of The Visual FoxPro Experts - Powered By VFP8
>>
>> "Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
>> news:117moeb22n11m86@news.supernews.com...
>>> Hello all and thanks in advance for the help.
>>>
>>> How do you print a bitmap where the bitmap that you will be printing is
>>> to be decided at runtime? Can you use the VFP report writer? Is there
>>> another way? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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Re: Printing a BMP bitmap by Ook

Ook
Fri May 06 12:48:13 CDT 2005

Jeff, I've done this before, and the trick I found was to simply rename the
BMP each time you print. I create a BMP with a random name in the windows
temp directory, and I think I use something like &lcBmpPath in the report
itself, where lcBmpPath contains the full path and filename to the temp BMP
file. It's been a while since I revisited this code, I can look at it
tonight if you want to know the exact syntax I used.

"Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
news:117n4hs1kljkq61@news.supernews.com...
> Sorry to post this in two places, I hope you see it in one of them.
Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> Eric,
>
> I tried this. The report "seems" to remember the first picture that it is
> given to print and each time you print it or preview it the same picture
is
> shown.
>
> I did the following:
>
> I set code to output the form image to c:\curform.bmp
>
> My code to call the report is:
> IF FILE("C:\CURFORM.BMP")
> ERASE C:\CURFORM.BMP
> ENDIF
> <code to create the curform.bmp file>
> REPORT FORM MyReport TO PRINT PREVIEW
>
> The report always displays the same image regardless of what I do to the
> form. This is in spite of the fact that the image has been deleted from
the
> disk and replaced with a different one.
>
> Do you know why this is happening?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> "Eric den Doop" <ericdendoop@xspamblockxfoxite.com> wrote in message
> news:ODThw3kUFHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > Just drop a Picture/Ole Bound control to your report and set "Picture
> > from"
> > to File and then specify the BMP. If you like, you can also specify a
> > memvar
> > or a UDF().
> > --
> > Eric den Doop
> > www.foxite.com - The Home Of The Visual FoxPro Experts - Powered By VFP8
> >
> > "Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
> > news:117moeb22n11m86@news.supernews.com...
> >> Hello all and thanks in advance for the help.
> >>
> >> How do you print a bitmap where the bitmap that you will be printing is
> >> to be decided at runtime? Can you use the VFP report writer? Is there
> >> another way? Thanks.
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >>
> >
> >
>
>


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Re: Printing a BMP bitmap by Cyrus

Cyrus
Sat May 07 17:44:31 CDT 2005

Ook wrote:
> Jeff, I've done this before, and the trick I found was to simply rename the
> BMP each time you print. I create a BMP with a random name in the windows
> temp directory, and I think I use something like &lcBmpPath in the report
> itself, where lcBmpPath contains the full path and filename to the temp BMP
> file. It's been a while since I revisited this code, I can look at it
> tonight if you want to know the exact syntax I used.
>
> "Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
> news:117n4hs1kljkq61@news.supernews.com...
>
>>Sorry to post this in two places, I hope you see it in one of them.
>
> Thanks,
>
>>Jeff
>>
>>Eric,
>>
>>I tried this. The report "seems" to remember the first picture that it is
>>given to print and each time you print it or preview it the same picture
>
> is
>
>>shown.
>>
>>I did the following:
>>
>>I set code to output the form image to c:\curform.bmp
>>
>>My code to call the report is:
>>IF FILE("C:\CURFORM.BMP")
>> ERASE C:\CURFORM.BMP
>>ENDIF
>><code to create the curform.bmp file>
>>REPORT FORM MyReport TO PRINT PREVIEW
>>
>>The report always displays the same image regardless of what I do to the
>>form. This is in spite of the fact that the image has been deleted from
>
> the
>
>>disk and replaced with a different one.
>>
>>Do you know why this is happening?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jeff
>>
>>"Eric den Doop" <ericdendoop@xspamblockxfoxite.com> wrote in message
>>news:ODThw3kUFHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>Just drop a Picture/Ole Bound control to your report and set "Picture
>>>from"
>>>to File and then specify the BMP. If you like, you can also specify a
>>>memvar
>>>or a UDF().
>>>--
>>>Eric den Doop
>>>www.foxite.com - The Home Of The Visual FoxPro Experts - Powered By VFP8
>>>
>>>"Jeff Grippe" <jgrippe@hilldun.com> wrote in message
>>>news:117moeb22n11m86@news.supernews.com...
>>>
>>>>Hello all and thanks in advance for the help.
>>>>
>>>>How do you print a bitmap where the bitmap that you will be printing is
>>>>to be decided at runtime? Can you use the VFP report writer? Is there
>>>>another way? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Jeff
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
You can also do a clear resource before running the report and it will
look at the actual file each time.

--
Cy Welch
Senior Programmer
MetSYS Inc
http://www.metsysinc.com
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