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Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

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The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

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Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
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    #1

    Print Preview Focus

    When I run this script, the first preview window is visible, but subsequent windows are hidden beneath the form with the button that initiated the script. How do I restore focus to the Print Preview window after each fetch.next
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    #2
    Re: Print Preview Focus

    Don't have answer to your question.

    Can't say that I've ever seen anyone tackle it this way.

    I'd build a single report, grouped by salesman, with page breaks after each group. Run one report, not many.

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      #3
      Re: Print Preview Focus

      Perhaps you need to look at Preview_Report() in the help file. This mentions Modal as being an option.

      Optional. Default = .F.

      .T. = This means that the user does not have to close the Print Preview window before he can move to another window in Alpha Five.

      .F. = The preview window opens as a modal dialog box. This means that the user must first close the Print Preview window before he can move to another window in Alpha Five.
      Hope this helps.
      Jay
      Jay Talbott
      Lexington, KY

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        #4
        Re: Print Preview Focus

        My client wants to be able to print a report per salesman with the option to print to printer or Adobe PDF. I tried the modal approach and it made no difference. Is there anyway to activate/change focus to a print preview window through xbasic?

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          #5
          Re: Print Preview Focus

          Maybe the syntax suggested by Ira in post 7 of the very first "Similar Threads" entry located at the bottom of this thread.
          Mike
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          It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
          It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
          Henry David Thoreau
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            #6
            Re: Print Preview Focus

            In this case, you could probably do as Tom said. However, there are other situations where someone might want to print multiple reports within one script that can't be handled with grouping.

            I made a bit of a stink about this awhile ago. Part of the problem was the apparent attitude that nobody but me would ever do this - this is now at least the fourth person that I know of who has encountered the problem. I suspect there are many more who simply gave up and did something else. I finally got a commitment that "it was fixed and will be in the next update." However, I haven't seen an update since then. Here's my video explaining the problem:
            http://www.aimsdc.net/Screens/report_preview2.wmv

            If your users are printing from a form that has no menu bar - or a menu bar with no "Window" option - there is no way to get the hidden preview back to the front. So, until an update is released (maybe "never" since v10 seems to be close?), the only other option is the .T. for modal.
            Last edited by CALocklin; 06-13-2009, 12:17 PM.

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              #7
              Re: Print Preview Focus

              Thanks to all for their suggestions. The final idea worked great!!

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