How do I print a SOLID line ?

[amartureo]

My DOS Foxpro programs made heavy use of ASCII characters to create vertical and horizontal lines, corners, and intersecting lines while printing. This allowed for the creation, on the fly, of printouts with attractive boxes. Now I'm having trouble in VFP even getting a nice solid line between several lines of print. I don't want to create a report, I just want some graphics created on the fly when printing. Help!

 

[DSummZZZ]

Have you tried using the 'shape' object?

You can also use:
@ 1, 1, 1, 100 BOX
-or-
@ 1,1, 40, 1 BOX


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[Mike Lewis]

amartureo,

The old DOS line-drawing characters are still available in certain fonts, but they don't really have a place in a modern typographic-quality report.

The recommended approach is to use VFP's report designer, which has its own line drawing tool (Reports / Insert / Line). Or, if you prefer the old @/SAY style of printing, use the BOX options that Dave suggested.

Mike

Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

My Visual Foxpro web site:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk

My Crystal Reports web site:

http://www.ml-crystal.com

 

[amartureo]

The items printed are simple enough that I've not used the report designer or @ commands, but just ? with the printer on. Sometimes a user will dump just a few lines of info to a page, do some other work, then dump a few additional lines on the paper that is still in the printer. I'd like to avoid changing thousands of lines of code in my DOS programs, but I sure can't import the code and use it with ASCII characters.

The current code from DOS uses:

SET PRIN ON
? <info, including ASCII characters, to be printed>
?
SET PRIN OFF

 

[Stella740pl]

In case of printing with ? you can try using underscore symbol for horizontal line. It would be solid with most fonts. Not very pretty, but should work.

 

[amartureo]

Underscore doesn't center well between lines. Hyphen gives me broken, unprofessional line. I really miss the ASCII characters.

 

[Stella740pl]

Underscore doesn't center well between lines.
Yes, it's right, you should add an empty line after it, then it looks better.