Report printing sequence with Anzio, local print

[Bob Rasmussen]

Hi all,

I have a user who is experiencing a problem that others have before, and I 
need some help in telling him how to deal with it. It involves Anzio's 
flush timer and the sequence of operations in the filePro program.

If the program has this sequence, there is a problem:

1) Initiate (open?) the print job
2) Ask the user some questions
3) generate the report data
4) close the job

The reason for the problem is that during step 2, Anzio's Flush Timer 
elapses, and Anzio terminates what is at that point an empty job. (The 
Flush Timer is used to determine when a job is finished, and needs to be 
flushed.)

If, instead, the first two steps are reversed, it works fine. That is, the 
program does not initiate the print job until it has collected all the 
necessary information from the user.

Do I have this right? What's the correct terminology for step 1? Is there 
any reason this change would be difficult or impossible?

Thanks much.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
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