Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2005 00:06, Paul McNett wrote:
>
>
>>There are indeed some similarities, but I think it is only at the most
>>superficial level. Units of measure are different, screens aren't
>>generally fixed to specific "page sizes", etc. However, both have the
>>concept of "properties" so I'm hoping to share the property sheet, as
>>well as some of the editors.
>
>
> Not to speak for Carl, but I think his concern was more in the inerface for
> the user, not so much what goes on under the hood, so 'superficial' is indeed
> important. And I did create the new prop sheet with extensibility in mind, so
> you should be able to use it.
>
Kinda. They both have a surface that you place/move/size/align objects, the
objects have props.
Here are some ER's that show more of what I was thinking.
Use a form as a report layout. It isn't always the most appropriate way to dump
data to a piece of paper, but at times it is just fine. For VFP I wrote a
Frx2Scs converter, but I would rather that both use the same file.
ER: tabbed pageframe (is that the right term or a VFPism?) on a report. a
PrintPageNo or PrintWhen prop will dynamical define which page to print (and a
"print tab boarders" prop that defaults to false.) That way an address block
(name/addr1/addr2/city,st,zip) can have several formats for the last line to cover
other countries.
^Carl
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