Printing a form as displayed on-screen

[stanmurphy]

Hi there,

Since the Keyword search is down I can't check if this has been answered before.

Is there a way to print a form as it is displayed onscreen. I have written a scheduling program and the users want to be able to print the schedule as it appears onscreen in case of a power failure or whatever.

The form consists of about 20 labels and about 50 text boxes. I suppose I could send all the field names to a report, but I'm hoping there is an easy way to just print the screen from VFP7.

Thank you

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

stanmurphy

You can programatically do a screen capture of your form, save it to a bitmap and print the bitmap.

It's also a quick and dirty way of producing complex single page reports without the hassle of creating them in the VFP report writer.

The maximum height of a report is going to be a little less than 600 pixels as you can only capture a visible area of screen.

FAQ184-2483 - the answer to getting answered.​

Chris

 

[stanmurphy]

Thanks very much.

 

[rgbean]

Go to the UT at

http://www.universalthread.com/,

click the Downloads picture on the Left, choose Visual FoxPro, then enter "print screen" (without the quotes) in the Title box and press enter. You should get back a link to:
Print Screens from VFP November 15, 2000 22:56
Print screens and forms directly from VFP using custom classes and DibApi32.dll.

An alternate solution is also available at VFUG (

http://www.vfug.org).

Mike Timpe of our local user group provided a Delphi based solution that works in VFP for the 2/2002 newsletter. The .ZIP is available in the downloads area.

Rick