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From: "Ira J. Lund" <>
Subject: Re: Reports
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 08:48:29 -0500


Concerning the questions about text report without headers, footers, etc:

I realize that the result of the TExt output is not very good. But to
explain what happens (from the programmers perspective) all preview reports
get generated as internal WMF files. WHat good are WMF files? Not really
much good except they are what lets the zoom features, etc occur without
lots of headaches on my part. Saving as WMF was simply easy for me, but not
real pratical for end-users. Not sure why you would want a WMF report file
anyway. The only use is to load in MS-Word and print it from there.

When I generate an ASCII text file, I basically parse though the WMF file
and extract all text. At this point all I know is what is text and location
on the page. I don't know what the text is, etc. Yes, I suppose something
could be done to try to remove headings and footers, or provide better
features. Actually a cleaner way would be to have a seperate report or text
file generator that I could better programmatically control rather than
extracting from WMF.

But that's a bunch of work. Rather than spend time on that I would rather
spend time on the next version of CFT which would have RTF saving
capabilities. This would allow mixed fonts, save as RTF which means your
other Word Processor could read it and retain all formatting. It would be
totally editable at that point.

Anyway, I know I have talked about this in the past and know many of you
are excited about the newer version. I really want to do it also, but I
must confess I have made very little progress. With the family and
remodeling I have not done much at all. It will come in time and I still
intend on working on this project. I just need more time. (Any Clarion 4
beta programmers out there that want to help?)

Ira
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Ira J. Lund
Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
E-mail:
http://www.cf-software.co

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