URGENT: Need help in changing the orientation of the report

[anilsantoshs]

Hi,

I need help in changing the orientation of the Report at design or Run-Time.

NOTE: i'm using Data Report available with VB.

Thanks,

Anil Santosh. S

 

[petevick]

Use rptReport.Orientation = rptOrientLandscape

Pete Vickerstaff - Hedra Software

http://www.hedrasoftware.co.uk

 

[anilsantoshs]

Thanks for ur immediate respone.

But, i'm not able get any properties as u mentioned. I'm using Datareports not the crystal reports.

Thanks
Anil Santosh. S

 

[petevick]

The .Orientation property IS for VB reports. Have you got a reference to the MSDataReportLib (MSDBRPTR.DLL, Microsoft Data Report Designer 6.0) library?

Pete Vickerstaff - Hedra Software

http://www.hedrasoftware.co.uk

 

[anilsantoshs]

Yes, i have the reference to MSDataReport.

Anil Santosh. S

 

[petevick]

You must also change the rptReport part to the name of your report.

Pete Vickerstaff - Hedra Software

http://www.hedrasoftware.co.uk

 

[VDavid]

anilsantoshs

I think the reason why you can't get the orientation property is because of the service pack you have installed in your developing machine. The Orientation property is avaviable in the VB6 with the Service Pack 5, I'm not sure which file exactly it changes, maybe you can figure it out and have change just that file to make the orientation property to work, or you can download and install the service pack.

You can find it at Microsoft's site in the downloads section with a quick search for Visual Basic 6 - Service Pack.

Hope this helps.

David.

 

[petevick]

Good point David, I forgot about the SP's, The MSDBRPTR.DLL file I have is SP4, altho VB6 has SP5 applied.

Pete Vickerstaff - Hedra Software

http://www.hedrasoftware.co.uk

 

[VDavid]

Pete,
When I had that problem in the past, I installed SP5, didnt make any other adjustment, and it did work fine.

The MSDBRPTR.DLL(Microsoft Data Report Designer 6.0) or the MSSTDFMT.DLL(Microsoft Data Formatting Object Library 6.0) are both used when you add a DataReport, but if you check in the Proyect->Component->Designer you will notice another file used by the DataReport, MSDBRPT.DLL(Microsoft Data Report ActiveX Designer DLL 6.0). My point is, there is more than one file that the SP replaces.

But anyway, I'm not a VB guru so my guess is as good as yours.

Anil
If you still have the problem you should check which Service Pack do you have. And give us more information to work with.

David.

 

[johnwm]

Service packs are free! Use the latest one, available from

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs6/sp5/dnldoverview.aspx

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