VFP9 report field alignment bug

I have a detail band field in a VFP9 report (still running in VFP8 mode, no
listeners or anything special) that evaluates to strings like "47/$123.50",
"15/$50.00", "0/$0.00", "818/$3,996.00" etc. These strings are all fully
trimmed and the report field is set to right justified, yet the those fields
in the detail rows do not line up on the report preview - the right edges
from one row to the next are misaligned by almost the full width of a zero.

Fortunately, they line up much better - but not perfectly - when printed.

Is this something I should report as a bug before release? To whom, and how?

Maybe it's too difficult, or too late, to fix.

Cindy
Wed Dec 01 14:58:12 CST 2004

Hi Paul,

I'm assuming you're using the public Beta version that was posted in June.
Needless to say, there's been a lot of development/bug fixes since then. I'm
not seeing the problem in the version I have.

--
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
cindy_winegarden@msn.com www.cindywinegarden.com


"Paul Pedersen" <no-reply@swen.com> wrote in message
news:eNlIGr91EHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I have a detail band field in a VFP9 report (still running in VFP8 mode, no
>listeners or anything special) that evaluates to strings like "47/$123.50",
>"15/$50.00", "0/$0.00", "818/$3,996.00" etc. These strings are all fully
>trimmed and the report field is set to right justified, yet the those
>fields in the detail rows do not line up on the report preview - the right
>edges from one row to the next are misaligned by almost the full width of a
>zero.
>
> Fortunately, they line up much better - but not perfectly - when printed.
>
> Is this something I should report as a bug before release? To whom, and
> how?
>
> Maybe it's too difficult, or too late, to fix.
>
>

Dan
Wed Dec 01 15:26:01 CST 2004

As Cindy says, there's been a lot of work done since the public beta
release, and (surprise!) much of it was on right-alignment (and
right-to-left).

Dan


Paul Pedersen wrote:
> I have a detail band field in a VFP9 report (still running in VFP8
> mode, no listeners or anything special) that evaluates to strings
> like "47/$123.50", "15/$50.00", "0/$0.00", "818/$3,996.00" etc. These
> strings are all fully trimmed and the report field is set to right
> justified, yet the those fields in the detail rows do not line up on
> the report preview - the right edges from one row to the next are
> misaligned by almost the full width of a zero.
>
> Fortunately, they line up much better - but not perfectly - when
> printed.
>
> Is this something I should report as a bug before release? To whom,
> and how?
>
> Maybe it's too difficult, or too late, to fix.