This can be overcome by using the TO FILE clauseinstead or else defining all the appropriate Windows Printer Drivers you mayneed for output to different ports so you can select the one you want. If you want to print a Report/Label definition that contains Windows objects,then you cannot designate the destination of your output through the SETPRINTER TO command. SET PRINTER TO LPT2REPORT FORM windef TO PRINTER Ignores the LPT2 port and prints to the default Windows Printer DriverSET PRINTER TO D:\MYDIR\REPOFILE.TXTSET PDSETUP TO "My LaserJet Setup"REPORT FORM windef TO PRINTER Ignores the SET PRINTER TO filename and instead prints to the default Windows Printer Driver. It will pay no attention to the you may have defined in the SET PRINTER TO command.
FPW assumes that if you want to print TO PRINTER,then its going to print to the printer that is defined by the currently-activeWindows Printer Driver. Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, version 2.6a Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0 Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh, version 3.0b Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, version 2.6a SUMMARY This article describes how to control the horizontal and vertical spacing of. You type SET PDSETUP TO SET PRINT ONREPORT FORM windefĪcts the same as the TO FILE example stipulated above except for the fact thatthe is ignored completely. You choose a PDSETUP through the File Menus Printer Setup option.2. I continue to develop and use the product with other engines like MySql. Visual Foxpro 6.0 and 9.0 are the best of the group by far. I have had my grounding in dBase 111 Plus, Foxpro For Dos from 2.0 to 2.6, Visual Foxpro 6,7,8 and now 9.
There are several ways a PDSETUP can be active:ġ. I am a Foxpro developer, as I have been since 1991. For variuos reasons the company didnt adapt/migrate their app, which, ironically, has been running even better under Windows XP (and 32-bit Win7) because the OS allowed new features like more reliable networking, distributed printing, email integration. This refers to a Printer Driver Setup created through the FoxPro/DOSGENPD.APP. I support a company that has a very old, mission critical, FoxPro for DOS 2.6 (FPD) application. Decompiler for FoxPro 2.5/2.6: fxp26prg.zip: Fxp26Prg is a decompiler for restoring source code from FoxPro 2.5 and FoxPro 2.6 executables or compiled modules. Printer Programmatically Printing Two Reports in One Duplexed GENERIC GENPD How To Change the Default Source of
Print in character mode in FPW andVisual FoxPro Other things that they occur when printinggraphically in FPW Set Printer Go, GoTo, Skip These are two of the original commands in the Xbase. A Guide to FoxPro - Windows Printing BehaviorĪll results are the same in both FPW versions and Visual FoxPro, exceptwhere indicated. It also brings up the Print Setup dialog in version 2.6a for Windows.