You may need to change the printer properties (RAW, EMF, TEXT) to allow pass through of your control codes
--- Sami Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike - > > In Windows versions 7.x and higher, the various "Variable" > objects just > refer to the data type of the variable you will be using - so > if it's just a > TEXT variable, you'll use the Variable Label; for a NOTE or > long TEXT that > will wrap, you use the Variable Memo - and I think the others > are > self-explanatory. > > So with that said, I remember the example that Mike Byerley > shared - but in > my conversions from 6.5 to 7.x I didn't need those printer > control codes > any more so I haven't replicated them in the new versions. > > So here are two possibilities: > > 1. Find the appropriate code (as Emmitt suggested). Then, in > the Report > Action / Before Generate EEP, try: > > SET VAR vprintercode = (CHAR(whatever)) > OUTPUT PRINTER > SHOW VAR .vprintercode (or maybe WRITE .vprintercode) > OUTPUT SCREEN > > 2. Copy the old printer shortcut to a new one and modify the > properties to > pre-define the setting on this if you can see how to do it. > Then in the > R:BASE report, you set the default Printer to be this new > printer. > > If that doesn't work, write back again and we'll keep working > on it ... > we'll all feel your pain until we find the way to make this > happen in the > new version! > > Sami > > ____________________________ > Sami Aaron > Software Management Specialists > 913-915-1971 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Michael > Sinclair > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 4:53 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printer Control Codes in Rbase 76 > > Can anybody verify if printer control codes are supported in > reports in > Rbase ver 7.6? > I can't find any documentation either way. In Rbase for Win > ver 6.5, we > had plain old "Variables" that were embedded in the report. > Now in ver > 7.6, we have System Variables, Variable Label, Variable Memo, > Variable > Rich Text, Variable Check Box, Variable Image, etc. but no > plain old > "Variable". When Ver 7.5 converted my report from Ver 6.5, it > made the > plain old Variables into Variable Label. Is there another > choice that > might make printer control codes work? > I have tried every trick I can think of to make the report do > a reverse > line feed with no luck. > > Thanks in advance. > Mike > > PS: > > > Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 1-504-737-3293 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
