how to programmaticly set margins for reports

[Nifrabar]

Hi!
Up to now I give my users the possibility to set left and top margins at runtime be manipulating the records of the report form. Disadvantage is that in fact only th econtent of the report shifts so it might happen that right site of report disappears.

In my new app with VFP9 I want to use the new listeners.
Will it be possible to set margins more like as in e.g. word or excel?

Any known articles on that?

Tia
-Bart

 

[Koen Piller]

Hi Bart,
Try

http://www.spacefold.com/lisa/SP2Demo/SednaDemo.htm

but first you should install SP2, save the 3 report*.apps to a separate temp directory, deinstall SP2 since it is buggy, except for the report*.apps. Reinstall VFP 9 with SP1 and than replace your 3 report.apps with the same from SP2. Voila you are working with a 'hybrid' version 2, as far as I can see bug free with full advantage of Lisa's marvelous work. Than sit back and enjoy the video on

http://www.spacefold.

Good Luck!
Regards,
Jockey2
P.S.
Donot try to make vertical hairlines in your HTML output, as these will not showup.

 

[Nifrabar]

Hi Jockey2!
Thanks for your feedback. Quit interesting demo!!
But did I overlook how to set margins?
-Bart

 

[ilyad]

Check Barbara Peisch's class for programmatically setting printer properties at

http://63.193.37.117/publicfiles/setprtprops.zip.

I haven't checked it recently, hopefully it does have this functionality included.