G'day Alastair, At 06:15 PM 22/11/2001 +0000, you wrote: >Firstly, if I use the Object Manager I can print the report to the screen >and it is correct. >If I try to print it to a file either from the R:> or the Object Manager I >get only the Page Header data.
I have not experienced this problem (must be a first) and nothing I can think of would cause the problem you describe. Have you tried it with SET MESSAGES ON and SET ERROR MESSAGES ON? Check that the variables are in the correct section. Do the manifestations you mention above apply if you exit R:BASE and perform the action as a first after connecting? (I am looking for unset variables or variables set to a different data type.) >If I try to print it to both file and screen from the Object Manager I get >the screen data correctly but an empty file. > >Secondly, there must be a "knack" to deleting report sections that I am >missing. Sometimes I click and hold on the green divider line and press >delete and the line just moves into another section which completely >screws up the report. When this happens there is nothing to be done but >delete the report and start again which is a total waste of time. What do you mean by "click and hold on the green divider line"? The technique I use is to left mouse click the green line, let go the click without moving the mouse and while the line is still highlighted, press the delete key. >Can anybody offer any advice, please? 1. While coming to grips with Windows report writing get into the habit of backing up your reports (must get around to buying Dennis McGrath's R:ARC) prior to making changes to them. 2. If you have made many changes to a report prior to making a change you have experienced problems with, save the report immediately prior to making the change and if the change goes awry, exit the form without saving the changes. This should save all your prior changes and not save the disastrous one. Good luck. (If it is any consolation, this version of R:BASE report writer is much more stable than some earlier Windows versions over which I lost at least part of my receding hairline.) Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses.
