| Q: |
Does the Report
Engine Preview Control have a Royalty Free License? |
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Yes with the following limitations:
The control can only be bundled in an End User
application. In no way is the control to be resold to a developer. Also, the
Development License LIC file is not to be shipped with the control. Each
developer is required to purchase his or her own license for development
purposes. |
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| Q: |
What files do I need
to distribute with my Visual FoxPro application? |
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The only file that you need to distribute
to use the
control is the MindsEyeReportEnginePro1.OCX which is the ActiveX Control. You
will need to use the VFP Class Library MERE_ReportListener.VCX in your
application to run standard VFP Reports using the VFP 9 Report Listener. To
programmatically generate reports, you only need to distribute the OCX file
for the Mind's Eye Report Engine ActiveX control you are using. |
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| Q: |
Why does the preview
(with ShowWindow=0) behave like a modeless form, ie. the program continues? |
| A: |
This behavior can be easily modified to
be a Modal or Non-Modal Form and can be done by making a simple change to
the ShowWindow parameter handling in the ReportFormPreview() Method and
creating another subclass of the ReportPreview Form class. |
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| Q: |
There seems to be a
limit of 32,767 pages, so the line on the webpage that says "is only limited
by the amount of memory/disk space available" is not quite true. |
| A: |
This is not a limitation of the control.
It is a limitation of the Visual FoxPro _PAGENO and _PAGETOTAL internal VFP
Variables. Currently, their values cannot exceed 32,767. I will be coding
around this limitation but you will not be able to rely upon the _PAGENO and
_PAGETOTAL variables if you pass that limitation. |
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| Q: |
In Visual FoxPro, the engine does not
seem to always pick up landscape mode from the FRX? |
| A: |
Do not clear out the EXPR field in your
Report FRX table. The MEIReportEngine Class reads the EXPR field to get the
Page Size and Page Orientation of the Report. At the moment, the
MEIReportEngine Class ignores the TAG and TAG2 fields. However, it could use
the TAG2 information since it is actually a DEVMODE Structure of the default
printer that the report was last saved with . |
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