Best idea so far
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ben Petersen Sent: den 12 februari 2003 08:18 To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Pagemode in Windows Karen, Is it not practical to leave the DOS version of RBase installed and use it to print this report? I'd imagine you could even zip to it from RBW. Ben Petersen On 12 Feb 2003, at 8:37, tellef wrote: > > Gunnar: > > Yeah, I was hoping to use a temporary table too. This report > consists of data from about 6 different tables. The problem is > that some of the data is underlined, some is boldfaced (don't know how > I could embed that in the data). There's about 4 different places > where data is in a tabular format (all different levels of indenting). > It's really like a letter with alot of text, in an indexed format > with section numbers, with embedded tables of data. Handled nicely > now in DOS with multiple reports printed one after another into one > report. > > If you put data into a temp table, do you even put in blank rows > and print it all as one detail line? How could you handle changes in > formatting in the rows? Since I have to do tables, and some of the > data might be longer than one row in the tabbed table, there'd be alot > of calculatin' going on to figure out where it would continue in the > next row! Like PAGEMODE would do! This is the single most > complicated report I've seen in my 17 years of RBase programming! And > it's hard to tell a client that something done so easily in DOS > 'can't' be done in Windows! > > Karen > > > > >Not directly an answer to your question, But I myself has stopped > >using > Pagemode. Instead I do most of my complicated stuff in SQL and > inserting the result in a temp table that corresponds to my reporting > requirement, then I report from The temp table. This gives me the same > flexibility and power as pagemode and very simple reporting. < > >
