Benefit of Storing Printer Info in a Report Table (.FRX File)

 Last reviewed: September 13, 1995
Article ID: Q136620
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

This article explains the benefit of storing printer information in the Report table (.frx file).

MORE INFORMATION

In FoxPro version 2.x, printer information is stored as binary format in the Tag and Tag2 memo fields in the .frx file. There is no easy way for the developer to change the orientation, paper size, and so on of the report once the .frx file has been created.

In Visual FoxPro, this information is now stored as text in the Expr field of the first record in the .frx file. Now, for example, if you need to change the orientation of the report from portrait to landscape, you can look for the "ORIENTATION=" setting in the first record of the Expr memo field, and change the orientation from 0 to 1.

To see what the valid values are for a specified printer setting, use the PRTINFO() function. For more information about the PRTINFO() function, search for PTRINFO in the Help menu.

Additional reference words: 3.00 VFoxWin
KBCategory: kbtool
KBSubcategory: FxtoolRwriter

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Last reviewed: September 13, 1995
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