Load First Page

[Rogp]

Hi,

Hope some of you can help

I am trying to get the first page of a VB 6 app (using Cr Viewer Control) - connected to SQL Server 7, to display before the other pages are loaded - to give the impression that the app is ready to ne used.

At the moment the app waits until all data is loaded and the last page is ready to be viewed - then the first page is displayed in the CR Report Viewer. That is, after the parameters are passed to the app nothing is displayed until all data processing has finished and then the first page is displayed.

How do I get the first page to display as fast as possible -whilst the rest of the data processing is going on?

Thanks in advance.

 

[dalchri]

I know that if you press the little stop button on the CRViewer with the mouse, the crystal report will stop processing and display the pages that it has processed so far. When you try to access a page that wasn't processed yet, the crystal report resumes processing.

I'm not certain, but perhaps there is some sort of way to do this programmatically.

 

[rogar]

You can speed things up if you DON'T use "Page N of M" in the report design. If you do, the viewer has to find what "M" is. HTH.