Dan
Wed Dec 07 15:29:05 CST 2005
I agree with Tim. You shouldn't be saving printer information in the FRX.
(Among other things, it will make them slow to open in your dev environment
if the specified printer isn't available.)
Dan
Matthew L Reed wrote:
> I am such an idiot. It was the printer driver after all. SET PRINTER
> TO GETPRINTER() does not change the printer the report thinks it's
> using, you have to do it from page setup - printer.....
>
> Can I go home now?
>
>
> "Matthew L Reed" <nousenetspam at dead ice dot us> wrote in message
> news:%23tTuJs1%23FHA.2812@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> VFP9. Duplicated it on different systems with different video cards,
>> different printers. It's most definitely being generated by VFP
>> itself, and does not appear to be video/printer related. I can look
>> at the report in the designer, it looks fine. I preview it,
>> rectangles are square. Look at these screen shots:
>>
>>
http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/goodreport.jpg
>>
>>
http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/badreport.jpg
>>
>> If I set REPORTBEHAVIOR to 90, it doesn't do it. However, this is an
>> existing system that has worked forever, and out of the blue this is
>> happening. We are at the final testing stages, and if I change
>> REPORTBEHAVIOR now, we will have to go back and test every single
>> report (and there are 647 reports in this system). I can't identify
>> what causes it - If I start VFP and do not run the app but just run
>> the report, it works. If I run the app and suspend it, and then run
>> the report, it gives square corners. From that point, I can
>> release/clear/close everything without closing VFP itself, and it
>> still does it. Something is happening to the environment, but every
>> setting I check is the same. I'm to the point of suspecting a report
>> engine bug, especially when you consider that setting reportbehavior
>> to 90 fixes it. If I run the same app with a different dataset, it
>> might or might not act up, yet I can close all tables and run a
>> dummy report against dummy data and still see it. Stranger yet.
>>
>> I just installed the SP1 beta, and unfortunately it did not fix
>> this. I can't create a duplicatable scenario because I don't what is
>> happening to VFP to cause this.
>>
>>
>> "Dan Freeman" <spam@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:eQMXYM1%23FHA.356@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> What version of VFP? If VFP9, what is SET REPORTBEHAVIOR?
>>>
>>> What version of Windows? Video driver? Printer driver? VFP actually
>>> does fairly little of the heavy lifting when it comes to printing
>>> reports.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> Matthew L Reed wrote:
>>>> Well, I don't know what to think. I have two intances of VFP
>>>> running side by side. In one instance, the rounded rectangles have
>>>> square corners. In the other the exact same report has rounded
>>>> edges as expected. I've looked at all of the environment settings
>>>> I can find, and AFAICT they are the same.
>>>>
>>>> "Matthew L Reed" <nousenetspam at dead ice dot us> wrote in message
>>>> news:%23%23IQKXs%23FHA.924@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>>> I have a very strange situation. I have a report. I have rounded
>>>>> rectangle on report. I set curvature to 24. If I suspend the app
>>>>> and preview report, it previews with the rectangle square. If I
>>>>> preview the same report outside of the app, ie start VFP, open
>>>>> table, preview report, it looks rounded as expected. Something in
>>>>> the environment is causing this, but I have not yet found what.
>>>>> Anyone seen this before?
