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[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Olman" <garyolman1 at hvc.rr.com>
To: "'Filepro-List'" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:14 PM
Subject: Page x of y


> The most annoying problem I have is getting "page x of y pages" working on 
> a
> filepro report . Filepro 5.0.14 windows XP. Every  thought I have works 
> 90%.
> Does some one have a way of making this work 100% of the time? Thanks
> Gary

Only possible way can be post-processing.
You don't know the total until you are all done. You have to print to a file 
and then examine the file, or pipe to a program that does the same thing.
The simplest way would be to have fp put the running page numbers and a 
special code one each page, and then at the end of the report you know the 
total page count, hand that value to the post processor somehow. The post 
processor then knows the total page count before it gets the frst page and 
can replace the special code with the total on it's way to the print 
spooler.

like, put this on your formats:

Page *@pn of %PT%

I don't know how you could do it really conveniently like putting a post 
processor program in a print destination so that it "just works" on any 
report or form.
Even if you had the report process write a temp file in @done that the post 
process knows how to find, the print destination command gets started as 
soon as the report starts, not after the report is all done. Maybe you have 
to print to file, and edit the file yourself in @done, then feed the file to 
the spooler. (which means you have to put a spooler command right in 
processing and can't use the print destination in fp he normal way)

On unix I'd make a printer interface that collects the data ito a file, 
reads the total page count from the special code on the last page, then 
passes the collected data through sed to the spooler. That way there is 
nothing funny you need to do in filepro other than put the code on the 
output where you want the total to show up. The print destination command 
doesn't need to be passed any values, you don't need anything special in 
@done. This would not be able to handle print data that had binary images 
and soft fonts etc in it.

On winows, maybe print wizard can do it.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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