I wish I could be at the conference, too, Razzak, but it's simply too expensive for me to fly from the UK. I hope it goes really well for everyone.
I did look at the virtual tour when you first announced it but not since nor in relation to the problem of vertical spacing in reports which has come up more recently. I'll take another look. Okay, I've taken another look - it's different!! However, even with only a 56k modem the display is too fast to really see what's on offer. I'll take your word for it, though, that all the problems will be resolved and I doubt that Neil at Aspen Software will have to wait for my upgrade order this time. In the mean time, to try and solve my problem (and that's too strong a word really because what I get works well as you can see if you look at the source files from the demo I mentioned here last week) and to try to help out Dan this is what I've discovered in W6.5++: If I set the page length/lines to zero I expected not to get any page breaks throughout the report and for the break headers and footers boxes to be irrelevant. Unfortunately that's not the case but maybe my expectation is wrong? As I recollect that's what happened in Dos. I have also set the page orientation to none. Anyway, I tried the four combinations of headers cleared/footers cleared; headers ticked/footers cleared; headers cleared/footers ticked & headers ticked/footers ticked. The only difference was that with both ticked I sometimes got two page breaks instead of one when printing to a file. (There are 4 breaks in the report but not 2 page breaks for each.) The really strange thing is that before I started testing I had the lines set to zero and both header/footer boxes cleared and I was getting a number of space and a carriage return combinations followed sometimes by just a carriage return between sections. For some reason I can no longer get back to that! (I've checked a backup copy to make sure I know what the settings were before.) It's not impossible that something else has changed but I can't think what else might affect the vertical spacing. (I'm looking at the output file in MS Word, by the way, which shows the special characters.) I presume that the space and a carriage return combinations depend on the spacing between the last object in a section and the section divider line and the space from there to the first object in the next section: ........................... Object snapped to dots above ........................... --------------------------------section divider approximately evenly ........................... spaced between two rows of dots. Object snapped to dots above I can understand one blank row above and one below but I'm getting something like 5 or 6 blank rows altogether between sections. I do not let objects touch the divider line because it's too easy for them to jump sections if they do. Maybe immediately adjacent "dummy" text objects containing spaces would "fix" the number of lines? >From my point of view if v7 prints to a file "properly" there's no point in fixing anything in the current version - although I expect Dan would disagree with that. Unfortunately I doubt that my investigation helps Dan in any way either - which is a shame. If I am able to test a beta version in the future then, obviously, this will be one of my first areas of investigation, but, hopefully, it's already been - or about to be - checked. Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:39 PM Subject: The Magical R:BASE 7.0 for Windows (was Re: Trouble with Reports Apology) > > At 10:04 PM 4/16/2002 +0100, Alastair Burr wrote: > > >Razzak, I don't know how close you are to making any > >announcements about v7 but would it be possible, please, > >to clarify what enhancements/corrections will be made to > >the report writer so that I, for one, don't waste a lot of > >time finding a work around now only to have to change > >it again in a few months? > > > Alastair, > > When will R:BASE 7.0 be released? > > Please review the section on "Frequently Asked Questions". > > http://www.rbase.com/rbg7 > > While enjoying the virtual tour, make sure to review Report > Wizard and Report Designer. > > I wish you could join us at the Developers' Conference to see it > for yourself, and appreciate the hard work and the monumental > tasks achieved by our Dedicated and Talented Dream Team! > > The Next Generation R:BASE 7.0 for Windows includes EVERY > Enhancement which our LOYAL and CURRENT R:BASE Users > have ever asked for, and more! > > We have worked very hard, and continue to make every effort to > live up to the highest expectations of our LOYAL and CURRENT > R:BASE Community. > > What can be imagined, can be achieved. You must dare to dream, > but there is no substitute for perseverance, hard work, and team > work. 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