Phew, thanks, Jim, it's nice to know I'm not quite nuts - yet! I haven't seen any responses from Razzak for a few days so I guess he's got other things to do at the mo' but if nothing else gets suggested I'll try reporting it.
Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James (Jim) Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Printing results of a query from the screen > Alastair, > > Your memory has not failed you. I just tried a query under RBase > for DOS v6.5+ and the print to file option worked as you described. > I had moved several columns and there were printed to the file > in the order shown on the screen. If the windows version does > it different then I would say that, in Razzak's terms, this is > a boo-boo and should be reported to the RDCC. > > -- > Jim Bentley > American Celiac Society > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email > (973) 325-8837 voice > (973) 669-8808 Fax > > > ---- "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you, Bernie, yes, I'm sure it will, but it was the ability > > to print > > what was selected on the screen that was bothering me. > > > > I could be wrong, but I remember in Dos that you used to be > > able to make > > your query results up how you wanted them and then get R:Base > > to print them > > in the column and row sequences that were current. The only > > thing (that I > > remember) that Dos changed was the width of columns which returned > > to the > > default so as all the data in a column was printed. > > > > Now, I rarely print anything these days - there's usually other > > ways to > > present the data in my case - but, sometimes, it's easier to > > quickly print > > off a set of results and work from that having got the data > > on the screen. > > That's the important part - the data has already been obtained > > on the screen > > and THEN the need to print arises. R:Base provides a print option > > that does > > this but it seems to have its own agenda for printing rather > > than mine. I > > just thought that the obvious thing for this option to do was > > to print what > > was current - I even remembered to switch to landscape to allow > > for the > > columns that I didn't need to be printed - but I got only 4 > > (out of 20 or > > so) columns and then they were put in the default sequence across > > the page. > > I have no idea where the other columns went - certainly not > > onto the paper! > > I got the correct number of rows ok - just not the right columns. > > > > Maybe it's something to do with the fact that R:Base does not > > currently save > > the screen layout properly - cell height, moved columns, maybe > > hidden > > columns as well - I can't remember for sure, are not saved with > > save layout > > on. Razzak, do you remember that we exchanged e-mails on that > > subject back > > in October last year? I trust v7 is going to resolve this one? > > > > Regards, > > Alastair, > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bernard Lis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:54 PM > > Subject: Re: Printing results of a query from the screen > > > > > > > Alastair, > > > will this give you what you want? > > > > > > out printer > > > sel col3,col1,col4 from MyView > > > out screen > > > > > > Bernie Lis > > > Megabytes, Inc. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "R:Base ListServer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:33 AM > > > Subject: Printing results of a query from the screen > > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > I had a need to create a one-off query this afternoon and > > print the > > > results. > > > > > > > > Now, in my innocence, I assumed that having selected the > > data in the qbe > > > > browser - which was simple enough from a pre-defined view > > - that all I > > > > needed to do would be to arrange the columns in the browser > > in the order > > > > that I wanted them and then click on File|Print. > > > > > > > > That's what used to work in Dos - as far as I remember - > > but in Windows > > I > > > > got the default column order for the first 4 columns only > > which meant > > that > > > I > > > > did not get the data that I wanted. > > > > > > > > The only way I could get what I needed was to get it on > > the screen > > > correctly > > > > then go to PaintShopPro and capture the area I wanted then > > print that > > from > > > > PaintShopPro! > > > > > > > > Apart from creating a special view and saving it with the > > columns in the > > > > right sequence - a bit excessive for 7 rows and 3 columns > > - can anybody > > > tell > > > > me, please, what I should have done? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Alastair. > > > > > > > > > ================================================ > > > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > > > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > > > ================================================ > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > > ================================================ > > > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > > ================================================ > > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > > ================================================ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > ================================================ > > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
