I know there are various graphical issues/artifacts with VFP on Windows 7.
I'm not sure if this one has ever been reported.
I have a multi-page report that duplicates a mandated form that one of our
departments have to use. The form was designed in Word by bureaucrats and I
am required to ensure that my version matches it exactly. It's an insane
form, lots of strangely-positioned pieces of text, boxes and lines. Point
being I am not allowed to alter its appearance to solve my problems.
My report for this form consists of a lot of lines of text, some images,
and some fields. The data comes from a denormalized cursor that has one row
per page. The controls are all stuffed into the report's detail band, with
Print When expressions controlling which page they appear on. There are no
report groups or multiple columns. Just one detail band per page, that
crosses the entire page.
I initially used a single text label for each line of static text. I use
the VFP 9 report engine for all previews to prevent a C5 crash issue with
the old-style preview window. However, I discovered that when previewing
the report on Windows 2000 or XP, some long text labels wouldn't appear
completely.
I use the old-style VFP report engine to print these reports, and the
problem also occurred when printing.
For example, a label that contained:
"Here is a pretty long line of magnificently positioned text for you to see."
would appear as:
""Here is a pretty long line of magnificently"
So I broke up long labels into two or more separate labels. In some cases
for a long line of text I would need three separate labels, with one
containing only a single word, in order to get them all to appear when
previewed or printed. I positioned these labels with some space between
them in order to provide the appropriate spaces between words.
However, I have found that when these reports are previewed in Windows
7--same report, still using the VFP 9 preview engine--the words in the
separate labels are jammed up against each other (I haven't tested with
printing yet).
For example, if I have three labels like so:
"Here is a pretty long line of magnificently" "positioned" "text for you to
see."
This looks right when previewed on Win 2000 or Win XP. But on Win 7, it
looks like:
Here is a pretty long line of magnificentlypositionedtext for you to see."
There are also size issues for image controls. I have a grey BMP "bar"
image that I use as background for some subheader rows in the report. They
are properly sized on Windows XP, but are about 1/8 inch too long when
previewed on Windows 7.
I tried dropping a Win XP copy of gdiplus.dll into the program's working
directory on Win 7, but that had no effect.
These anomalies also occur if I generate a Word document from the report
and view it in Word 2010.
I'm not asking for help here; I'm just creating yet another version of the
report to cope with this. But I think it's strange.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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