Total of Pages on a Fwh Report

[Pedro Faro]

Hi

Is it possble to print trought Print object the total of pages of a report ?

ex. Page xx of nn

Regards


Pedro Faro

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Yes, but you have to generate the report twice. I don't think it's worth the effort.

EMG

[Marcelo Via Giglio]

Hola,

you can write the page number after of the report finished, because each page of the report is a EMF or WMF file in some directory in your machine (ej. c:\windows\temp), in this way you doin't need to generate the report two times.

saludos

Marcelo

[R.F.]

First of all you need to undestand how FW create the reports.

FW REPORT Engine is based on a PRINTER object, which creates "draws" of the reports in an image format called "Windows Meta File" or "Enhaced Meta Files" (WMF / EMF). Every time you run a Report o Print object, these files are created in the windows temp directory, then they are previewed and after you close the preview window, these files are erased.

FiveWin has no way to know in advantace how many pages the report will have, because the number of records printed in every single page depends of many factors such printer resolution, paper lenght, font used, etc.

So, as Enrico says, you would need to launch a frist "pre-printing" report, after finished this first report, you know exactly how may pages your report will have, and with that data you would have to re-create the report in order to print the "page n of n"

The other way, as Marcelo suggest, is to directly edit the WMF files, and by hand write the page number on them.

Both solutions are equally complicated.