running a form without user intervention!

[Myqns]

I have a form that has couple of command buttons. These buttons lead to two other forms. In these two forms there are about 10 -12 checkboxes (each represent a report) and few buttons. Select the required reports by selecting the checkboxes and click on the button, it prints all the selected reports. How do I print all the reports in both the forms without selecting the check boxes and clicking the button from another program? (ie.) without user intervention.

Thanks

 

[Mike Lewis]

Well, the easiest way would be just to run whatever code is in the click of the "print" button on the second form -- that's probably a REPORT FORM command.

Mike


Mike Lewis
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[baltman]

You need to automate your form. I do this myself sometimes with some of my apps made to interface with a human, but sometimes needs to be run in 'batch mode'.

I just write a prg that launches the app/form and issue commands to the _screen.activeform e.g.

do form MyForm
_screen.activeform.visible=.f.
_screen.activeform.Check1.value=1
_screen.activeform.RunRptButton.click
_screen.activeform.release

 

[baltman]

I threw in the .visible=.f. because I thought you might not want to show what was going on, but it causes activeform to fail.

This works better.

Brian

do form MyForm noshow name MyForm
MyForm.Check1.value=1
MyForm.RunRptButton.click
MyForm.release