Report printed status

[trial03]

Dear all,

how could tell whether the report was actually printed when issue command like below :

REPORT FORM report1 TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW


thanks and regards,

 

[Chriss Miller]

Which version of VFP are you using. If it's the usual VFP9, you can make use of the reportlistener "OnPreviewClose" method. The help on that has good example code.

 

[wOOdy-Soft]

Maybe take a look at SYS(2040)

SYS(2040) - Detect Report Status - dv_foxhelp91.hhc - Imported Help File

 

[Chriss Miller]

Just watch out, in REPORTBEHAVIOR 90, SYS(2040) does not become "2".

I double checked that in VFP9 9.0.0.7423. I think it's be design, as VFP 9 report behavior is using a pagecage that exactly prints what preview showed and thus does not do a separate pass for actual printing. You might be able to configure this to force a separate pass, especially when you depend on it in expressions that you actually want to only be added when finally printing and not in preview. Anyway, it's an annoyance.

 

[tomk3]

Hello,

I do not know an answer, too. Sys(2040) seems not always work as expected.

We have 2 buttons in our software :
"Preview " = Preview report without invoice number or with a watermark
"Print and save" = With invoicenumber and printout or generate PDF and save data

You may also try foxypreviewer, AFAIK you can programmatically hide the print (and other) buttons

 

[Chriss Miller]

The solution that always works is a reportlisteners OnPreviewClose method and SYS(2040) works with SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 80 or in older VFP versions (up to 8). So there's a solution to any case.