You can't do that

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Asman" <jlasman at telus.net>
To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: You can't do that


> --------------- Original Message ---------------
> At 02:41P Tue Aug 30 2005, Jeff Harrison wrote:
>
>> Here are some things that I never found a good way to
>> do using filepro.  Please prove me wrong if you can.
>>
>> Say that I have "remove unwanted blank lines" checked
>> off on my output format, but I want to conditionally
>> force a blank line based on some logic in my code.  I
>> have a couple of ways that I have used to do this, but
>> none of them are really "good" i.e. easy to use,
>> generic, portable, and intrinsic to filepro.
>>
>> Here is what I have used for this in the past:
>>
>> A.  Use a dummy field that you populate with a
>> character that does not print on the given printer.
>> (Of course you can't use the space character for this
>> because filepro assumes this would be an unwanted
>> blank line.) - this solution is printer dependent.
>>
>
> Conditionally populate a variable with chr("13") !

Then filepro gets out of touch with reality and puts page breaks and new 
page headers and grand totals in the middles of pages.

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