Report Form PREVIEW and STATUSBAR

[Germancho]

When I run the REPORT FORM ... PREVIEW, the STATUSBAR shows information about the cursor currently in use. For example:

SET MESSAGE TO ""
REPORT FORM MyReport PREVIEW

I want to clear the STATUSBAR line while the PREVIEW is on. How can I do that?

 

[Mike Lewis]

Germancho,

Try:

SET MESSAGE TO ""

Better still, remove the status bar completely with:

SET STATUS BAR OFF

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

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http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk

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http://www.ml-crystal.com

 

[Mike Gagnon]

How about SET STATUS BAR OFF?

Mike Gagnon

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[Germancho]

Thanks Mike Lewis.

The information about the cursor is still there alltought I use the SET MESSAGE TO "" before the REPORT FORM PREVIEW.
I should want to clear the STATUSBAR line message without remove it.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Germancho,

I've never tried this, but you could try writing a small function containing the SET MESSAGE TO "" command. Then, call that function from a field in the report header section of the report.

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

My Visual Foxpro web site:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk

My Crystal Reports web site:

http://www.ml-crystal.com

 

[mspratt]

Have you tried SET MESSAGE TO "" in the init of the reports DataEnvironment?

Regards,

Mike

 

[Germancho]

Thanks all of you.

It´s impossible to clear the STATUS BAR line without remove it. I give up. The better way is:

SET STATUS BAR OFF
REPORT FORM MyReport PREVIEW
SET STATUS BAR ON

 

[awaresoft]

Germancho,

Why not create form that matches the height and width of your status bar, set this form's AlwaysOnTop property to True, and turn off this form's border.

If this form is the same color as your status bar (I'm sure there's an API call to determine what color constant VFP uses for its status bar?) then it will hide any messages appearing underneath it.

I'm not sure of the mechanics of how one would determine the size of the VFP status bar (height), color, and font but I would be interested in seeing someone's implementation of this idea.

Malcolm