Re: Landscape output

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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:31:58 -0700

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:35:45 -0400, "Dennis Allen"
<dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi. I have a VFP6 application, with manually generated reports that
>sometimes need to be printed landscape. Question. Is there any way to
>force PRTINFO(1) = 1 for my report then back to 0?
>
>Couple of months ago I was given a solution of using =SYS(1037) and
>KEYBOARD "{tab}{tab}{tab}{tab}a{enter}" CLEAR to switch to landscape.

That was me.

>Once I figured out I needed to first SET PRINT NAME to the desired
>printer first, works pretty good. But I've seen situations where
>KEYBOARD "{tab}{tab}{tab}{tab}o{enter}" CLEAR didn't return the user to
>portrait, so it's not foolproof. Report frx files can switch back and

Yes, if the window gets messed with during the brief time that
the dialog box is open.

>forth to landscape mode, how do they do it?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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