VFP9 Report "Rotation of Text" 2

[Asif Ali]

I have VFP7 & VFP9 installed on my PC. Mostly I work on VFP7 because all my applications are there. But today I design a report in which I need a rotation text, so I designed it in VFP9. After building application (.exe) it is not showing rotation. It is opening it as VFP7.

This is calling my report from Designing Form

This is after Building Application

I think I am doing something wrong.
Please help.

 

[Tom Borgmann]

Hi Asif Ali,

the only thing you're doing wrong is using a VFP version that can't work with such reports.
Rotation of text was made available with VFP9s new reporting apps.

BUT!!!!!

in your case there isn't any text rotation needed. What you are trying to achieve is to rotate the complete report and THAT is done by changing the reports layout from PORTRAIT to LANDDSCAPE.
BTW, this can be done interactively within the reporting interface or programmatically.
Just do a little search for "VFP report landscape" and you will find lots of example on how to do it. You can start the search right here in TekTips as this has been asked for many times over the years and it can be done in VFP9 as well as in VFP7

HTH

-Tom

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[Asif Ali]

Thankyou for reply Tom. Actually you can see in the Image Report Preview controls are changed in both the reports. It is actually a wrist band of width 1" and I am using Label. I need to rotate the text as it is showing in Image One. I think there is something to do with Environment Setting of report or something else.

 

[Mike Lewis]

It's difficult to know what you are doing wrong without knowing what you are actually doing. In general, the steps to show rotated text are as follows:

1. Go to the object's properties in the report designer.

2. Go to the Advanced tab.

4. Use the Angle control to specify the angle of rotation (normally 90 or 270 degrees).

As far as I know, this feature is only available in VPP 9 SP2. That is presumably the version you are using, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to get as far as you have.

Mike

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[Chris Miller]

You have to provide the report apps with your EXE additional to the usual runtimes, also set _REPORTOUTPUT and _REPORTPREVIEW to the files and make the setting for reportbehavior 90.

Chriss

 

[Asif Ali]

Thanks Chris It worked. I just set reportbehavior 90 and I got my result.
Also thanks Mike for support and reply.

 

[Chris Miller]

Well, if you install your EXE on a computer without VFP, you'll see the report apps have to be present there, too. On your development computer they are known, but you have to think about that more general about all necessary VFP and C++ runtimes (as the VFP runtime is written in C++).


Chriss