Visual Foxpro Report Form To Pdf
The webbrowser control can display a PDF, if the PDF viewer you install also installs an IE plugin, and that's the case with many PDF viewers. To explain, why it won't work with the image control is simple: PDF is not a picture format at all, and even if it would be, you can only display some picture formats with the image control. VFP supports BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG and TIF, perhaps I forgot some more, but those are the mostly used picture formats anyway. PDF is a document format, like DOC, and you also can't expect an image control to display a word doc. I have successfully used an OLE Bound Control on a form to display a PDF. I set its ControlSource to the name of a General field in a cursor created just for this purpose.
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You can also adjust how the image fits inside the control by setting its Stretch property. Here's an example of the basic code: * In the form's Init() the cursor is created. CREATE CURSOR csrForOLE (Image G) APPEND BLANK * Then for each PDF to be displayed. CDocName = 'SomeDocument.PDF' APPEND GENERAL Image FROM (cDocName) LINK * To clear the display. APPEND GENERAL Image.
The VFP Report form page that displaies/prints the PDF file is a OLE File Object and is created / Printed through Amyuni 4.5xx Converter to a.
This article is based on a session I gave at the Advisor Visual FoxPro DevCon in June 2005, in which I described the new report previewing abilities of Visual FoxPro 9.0, and demonstrated the basic techniques that it uses 'behind the scenes'. Introduction A quick history lesson Visual FoxPro 8.0 and earlier versions featured a 'closed system' when it came to reporting.
If you didn't like the results of a standard REPORT FORM. PREVIEW command, or required more flexibility, your only alternative was to write your own FRX parser and output generator in pure FoxPro code.
This is possible to do, but complicated and frustrating, because you would need to re-implement most of the existing functionality built-in to the FoxPro reporting engine. The older, VFP8-and-earlier reporting system is still there in VFP9 if you need it. There are good reasons - including guaranteed backward-compatibility - to use it occasionally: SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 80 REPORT FORM. [PREVIEW] A quick 'preview' of reporting options in VFP 9 In 9.0, the FoxPro reporting system gets an exciting addition of a new base class packed with reporting goodness: The ReportListener class. This is your object-oriented gateway to the powerful FoxPro reporting engine. In addition to this base ReportListener class, VFP9 contains some additional 'hooks' that allow you to attach components written in pure FoxPro. This enables a kind of hybrid reporting model, leveraging the power of the built-in reporting engine with the flexibility of custom FoxPro code.
You attach a ReportListener object to a report run using the new OBJECT clause: REPORT FORM. OBJECT Or, you can attach 'factory' applications' to the report engine so that it gets the ReportListener objects it needs, automatically: SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 90 _reportoutput = 'listenerfactory.app' _reportpreview = 'previewfactory.app' REPORT FORM. This is a very powerful and flexible architecture, and in the rest of this article I'm only going to cover the previewing aspect. The Simplest Preview Ever I'm going to start out by showing you how to create the simplest preview ever.
You're going to use two attributes of the ReportListener class: the ListenerType [] property and the OutputPage() [] method. First, you create a base ReportListener object: rl = newobject('ReportListener') rl.ListenerType = 3 This property is a special one that controls how the listener responds when attached to a report run. (More on this later on.) Now kick off a report run, with the listener object plugged into the process: REPORT FORM _samples + ' Solution Reports colors.frx' OBJECT m.rl Nothing appears to happen. I'll get to that in a minute. Now it's time to use another attribute of the listener object: OutputPage. OutputPage() parameters Intellisense will tell you the parameters: rl.OutputPage( nPageNo, eDevice, nDeviceType ) nDeviceType tells the listener what the parameter eDevice is: • nDeviceType = 0: eDevice is a GDI printer handle.