Re: VFP9 vs. Crystal

2007-05-29 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On 5/30/07, Garrett Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/29/07, Stephen the Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How > > do you show a negative number in the color red in a fox report? > Actually, I don't want to show them in red, I want parentheses. DEFINE CLASS RedNeg AS ReportListener

Re: VFP9 vs. Crystal

2007-05-29 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On 5/29/07, Stephen the Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How > do you show a negative number in the color red in a fox report? DEFINE CLASS RedNeg AS ReportListener PROCEDURE EvaluateContents LPARAMETERS tnFRXRecno, toObjProperties

RE: VFP9 vs. Crystal

2007-05-29 Thread Stephen the Cook
Paul Hill <> wrote: > On 5/29/07, Garrett Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been working with Crystal 8.5 for the past month (it's outdated, >> but the EMR software we use doesn't support Crystal XI). >> >> Last week, I re-implemented a report I had half-done in CR, which I >> had been

VFP9 vs. Crystal

2007-05-29 Thread richmondeagle
I used Crystal a while back and got sub reports working pretty well. It's primary virtue was that I could comple stand alone reports that didn't have to run the full VFP exe. However on the more complex reports, we still had to fall back on VFP for data manipulation. Like a lot of packages th

Re: VFP9 vs. Crystal

2007-05-29 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On 5/29/07, Paul Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, why should I use Crystal instead of VFP? What does it do better? > > Sub reports. Right. Last time I used subreports, the alternative (which wasn't available) was to write a lot of @...SAY code to draw directly on the page, which wouldn't ha

Re: VFP9 vs. Crystal

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Hill
On 5/29/07, Garrett Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working with Crystal 8.5 for the past month (it's outdated, > but the EMR software we use doesn't support Crystal XI). > > Last week, I re-implemented a report I had half-done in CR, which I > had been working on for a couple of

VFP9 vs. Crystal

2007-05-29 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I've been working with Crystal 8.5 for the past month (it's outdated, but the EMR software we use doesn't support Crystal XI). Last week, I re-implemented a report I had half-done in CR, which I had been working on for a couple of days, in VFP9, and had passed the point where I had left off in les