VFP 9 can output to HTML using Report Listeners ...
*-- Make sure the HTML file doesn't exist
ERASE MyHTMLOutput.HTM
*-- Create the Listener class
SET CLASSLIB TO HOME() + 'FFC\_REPORTLISTENER'
ox = CREATEOBJECT('htmlListener')
*-- Set some properties
ox.TargetFileName = 'MyHTMLOutput'
*-- Run the report
REPORT FORM Whatever OBJECT ox
> -----Original Message-----
> From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]
On
> Behalf Of Joe Yoder
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 1:10 AM
> To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> Subject: Re: Producing a report with photos as a Word file
>
> Sounds like a great trick Kevin! But how do I tell the report writer to
> output HTML?
>
> Thank - joe
>
> On Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:08 AM, Kevin Cully wrote:
> >
> >Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:08:30 -0500
> >From: Kevin Cully
> >To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> >cc:
> >Subject: Re: Producing a report with photos as a Word file
> >
> >Hello Joe,
> >
> >Dave Bernard clued me in on this trick. Word will read and render HTML
> >files, even if that HTML file has the DOC extension.
> >
> >Spit out your report in HTML format but give it a DOC extension and have
> >Foxpro launch the document with the default program (M$ Word) and it
> >should come up with pictures and all.
> >
> >-Kevin
> >CULLY Technologies, LLC
> >
> >
> >Joe Yoder wrote:
> >> I need to produce a report from a canned system that is written in
> Foxpro. The system has data and links to photos for groups and has some
> canned reports but none that allow a report with one group's information
> per page. The secretary who will print binder pages is most comfortable
> in Word. When she is making up a new binder, she will print the entire
> Word document. When there are changes to the data or photo for one group,
> she will print multiple copies of the single page with the changes.
> >>
> >> The goal is to have the secretary run my app which will produce an
> updated Word file from the Foxpro database and associated photos. She can
> then make final tweaks if necessary and print as much or little as
required
> in her familiar environment.
> >>
> >> Any counsel for the most reliable straight forward way to achieve this
> would be appreciated. Alternative suggestions will be welcomed as well.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Joe Yoder
> >>
> >>
> >> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
> >> multipart/alternative
> >> text/plain (text body -- kept)
> >> text/html
> >> ---
> >>
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