On 2014-07-11 13:07, Gene Wirchenko wrote: <snipped>
I wrote reports starting before the report writer, and I prefer my reports in code. Some of the requirements on my system can get downright nasty, too. For a report that is not simply a dump of a table, I build a cursor to report off.Well, maybe more than one. For some of my more complex reports, I have to build the reporting cursor in stages. I think my most complicated one took about five intermediate cursors before I finally generate the one used in the report. I would not want to try to write the complex reports by directly hitting the tables. Cursors rule; cursers fool!
I too like to use flat cursors to do my reports. I know the VFP team upgraded the Report Writer (contrary to Robert Green saying it would never happen), but by then, I was used to flat cursors for reporting. The only improvements of which I took advantage would have been probably just the _pagetotal variable.
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