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Author VDB5.7 and Screen Printing
Eddie Muniz

2006-02-08, 11:23 am

What would be the best way to add Print To Screen in VDB 5.7 ?

right now all my reports output are handled by my code, not Crystal or
anything. I use

?? XXX at 20

Is this possible ?


John York

2006-02-09, 7:23 am

one solution is to print to a file and then open a form with the reportfile
datasourced to an editor control

depends on the size of your report as to just how long this would take

works fine for reports of just a few pages

I am sure there are other more elegant solutions but this is a quick down
and dirty method


John

"Eddie Muniz" <eddie0605@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:XNxfwKNLGHA.1104@news-server...
> What would be the best way to add Print To Screen in VDB 5.7 ?
>
> right now all my reports output are handled by my code, not Crystal or
> anything. I use
>
> ?? XXX at 20
>
> Is this possible ?
>
>



Richard Perryman

2006-02-09, 9:23 am

Eddie Muniz wrote:
> What would be the best way to add Print To Screen in VDB 5.7 ?
>
> right now all my reports output are handled by my code, not Crystal or
> anything. I use
>
> ?? XXX at 20
>
> Is this possible ?
>


Yes - I actually did a crazy thing and tried to write a report writer
for my users. It actually works to a degree. Anyway I just write the
output to text file and display it in a editor. Here's a link to the
report writer I made - don't laugh.

http://www.maplesoft.net/mwriter.exe

Thanks
Richard
Eddie Muniz

2006-02-13, 1:23 pm

Nothing to laugh about.

What are the text file limitations ?

Are you just opening an editor box for viewing ?

Eddie


"Richard Perryman" < richard@vipindustrie
s.com> wrote in message
news:vsZbmyYLGHA.864@news-server...
> Eddie Muniz wrote:
>
> Yes - I actually did a crazy thing and tried to write a report writer for
> my users. It actually works to a degree. Anyway I just write the output
> to text file and display it in a editor. Here's a link to the report
> writer I made - don't laugh.
>
> http://www.maplesoft.net/mwriter.exe
>
> Thanks
> Richard



Richard Perryman

2006-02-14, 9:23 am

Eddie Muniz wrote:
>
> What are the text file limitations ?
>
> Are you just opening an editor box for viewing ?
>


Exactly - using an editor box to display the text file. I don't see
why you could not put a very large file in a text file, but I don't
really know the limits of what the editor box can display.
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