Is there a way to tell if a user has printed a previewed report?

Currently, my code just opens the report (using a ReportPrintInfo structure).
If they're previewing it, the method just returns, leaving the report open.
Otherwise it prints it, then returns.

I'm putting in an audit function to show all emails, faxes, and reports that
were generated for each record. But I don't want misleading records if they
close a preview without printing it.

Thanks in advance!
Jim Moseley

You would have to remove normal methodologies for printing, and create your
own form with buttons that print and log that they printed.



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Tony McGuire

Tony,

Ah, the key would be to wait() on the report, right? Thus, I could setup
my own menu to match the current Pdox one, and capture each command.

This also ties in with another issue I've recently come across. I'm letting
my users declare a form to be a dialog, so they can park it on an extra monitor.
But, previewed reports end up behind them. Is there a report equivalent
to form.OpenAsDialog()? Extra credit - can you change an open non-dialog
form to a dialog? Seems like a few fancy windows calls would be needed (anyone?
anyone?)

Thanks,
Jim Moseley

You may be able to park the dialog on the second screen but the report
will open always within the app frame...to my knowledge.

Regarding the dialog blocking the report... you could use something
like this in the dialog's report open button:


hide()
rep.open("A_REPORT")
rep.wait()
show()

or ...

menuaction(menucontrolminmize)
rep.open("A_REPORT")
rep.wait()
menuaction(menucontrolrestore)

Still not air tight. What if the user minimizes the report and then
gets confused? Problem is that the dialog can't re-appear until the
report is actually closed.

You may run into menu issues when opening the report from a dialog as
in--just not working. Consider a separate Preview and Print button on
the dialog.

Randy



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