On 9/7/06, Tristan Leask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
but I this wouldn't be particle as it would involve telling the user how to work the editor.
Is this another "British-ism" or were you anagramming "practical"?
My initial idea is to have a standard label that is included in the program, but then give an option to the user to specify the size of the label they want to print to, and then by use of a report hack, programmatically scale the measurements in the table.
Sure! It's been done many times over. The report writer/label writer tools are just interfaces for saving DBFs and they are eminently hackable. My partner came up with a hack a few years ago to sort and group up to three levels deeps (or two, or one, or none) by adding, subtracting or manipulating values in an FRX. The downside, though, is that you need to become "one with the label writer." The table format is funky, quirky and idiosyncratic. I'd encourage you to get or borrow some of the great report writer books in the field (there's three or four), do a thorough search about the Internet to see if someones done something similar you can build on, and don't underestimate the time it would take. It only took ten man-years for the MicroMega folks to come up with the killer report writer. Or you could just tell your customers they have to buy standard labels <s>. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
