Change report title/header - is it possible?

[SitesMasstec]

Hello colleagues!

When I run a REPORT FORM... I got the preview in the screen:

Is it possible to change the text 'Report Preview - relportos.frx' for other text, in other language?
Also there is no need for the user to see the 'relportos.frx' text in the header.


Thank you,
SitesMasstec

 

[GriffMG]

I am sure there are few ways to do this, but a quick look at the Help might offer this for a predefined window...

REPORT FORM myReport1.frx PREVIEW WINDOW MyWindow

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[Mike Lewis]

To follow up Griff's advice, take a look at my article: Taming the Visual FoxPro report preview window, especially the section headed "The IN WINDOW option".

Or, you might like to consider using FoxyPreviewer for your previews. That would solve this particular problem, and also give you a lot more options - but at the expense of fairly substantial changes to the appearance of your reports.

Mike

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[Chris Miller]

Regarding the title of the print preview toolbar, I think when you compile to EXE and use the language resource DLL for portuguese or spanish that would also get the spanish toolbar title.

Besides that, the buttons of the preview toolbar are copnfigurable within the VFP IDE. Jut go into View-Toolbars, then click "customize" and in the customize dialog you can pick the print preview and remove or add buttons.

This custom configuration is stored in a record of foxuser.dbf and you can provide that modified foxuser.dbf to change the buttons also for an EXE

Just do

USE SYS(2005) again alias myfoxuser
BROWSE FOR UPPER(Name) == 'PRINT PREVIEW'

That shows that record, the buttons of the toolbar are encode in binary within the Data memo, you know how to change that, not there but with the customize dialog. But that one record within the foxuser.dbf the EXE finally uses will make the preview the same as you customize it.

Mike is right that this and more is easier using FoxyPreviewer. It's not the look of the report themselves that will change, FoxyPreviewer prints the same FRXes with the same output, but the preview toolbar has quite a different look.

Chriss

 

[SitesMasstec]

Griff, Mike: I tried your solutions, but the report did not display as I expected (maximized):

THISFORM.LostFocus
SET ORDER TO NOMEPOR

LOCAL loPreview
loPreview = CREATEOBJECT("Form")

* At this point, you can customise the form in
* certain ways, for example by changing its
* size, position, caption or icon.

loPreview.Caption = "Relatório"
loPreview.Name = "MyPreview"
loPreview.Visible = .T.
loPreview.Width = 1000
loPreview.Height = 1600
loPreview.ScrollBars = 3
loPreview.TitleBar = 0

REPORT FORM RELPORTOS TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW IN WINDOW MyPreview

Thank you,
SitesMasstec

 

[Chris Miller]

Well,

your code sets a lot of properties of the preview window, but you don't maximize it. So why do you expect it to become maximized? Just because you set height and width? And what display would have a resolution of 1000x1600? Even if you use a display in portrait orientation.

Well, there's a better method to maximize a form, that's independent of the display resolution:

loPreview.WindowState=2 && 2= maximized, 1=normal, 0=minimized

Chriss

 

[SitesMasstec]

And what display would have a resolution of 1000x1600?

Touché!

Criss: the result displayed exactly the same (not maximized).

Here is the code:

THISFORM.LostFocus
SET ORDER TO NOMEPOR

LOCAL loPreview
loPreview = CREATEOBJECT("Form")

* At this point, you can customise the form in
* certain ways, for example by changing its
* size, position, caption or icon.

loPreview.Caption = "Relatório"
loPreview.Name = "MyPreview"
loPreview.Visible = .T.
loPreview.ScrollBars = 3
loPreview.TitleBar = 0
loPreview.WindowState = 2    && 2= maximized, 1=normal, 0=minimized 

REPORT FORM RELPORTOS TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW IN WINDOW MyPreview

Thank you,
SitesMasstec

 

[Chris Miller]

It shouldn't make a difference by documentation, but for me dropping the IN works:

REPORT FORM RELPORTOS TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW WINDOW MyPreview

Chriss

 

[SitesMasstec]

Also, all the buttons in the Print Preview became disabled.

So, I copied a previous backup FOXUSER.DBF/FPT back to the folder of the application.

I compiled the application and ran it. With the report preview opened I maximized manually the preview window. Now every time I click to see that report, the preview window is already maximized. So I will distribute my application with the FOXUSER.DBF/FPT generated in my computer. It seems to work.


Thank you,
SitesMasstec