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User Report Generator

This is based on Ken Chan's paper but with many extra features and enhancements. It allows developers and/or users to build listing type reports from within an application and without using the VdB Report Designer.It is in the form of a working demonstration system that can readily be adapted for use in other applications. An included UsRepGen.htm file gives full details of operation and how to modify for your own use.

User Report Generator Mark II

An entirely new report generator is now available. This works quite differently to the Mark I version. It includes lotsof new features and actually creates complete and immediately usable Report files. A long descriptive article (written for dBulletin No.9) is included. The URG2 is suitable for both programmers and users. A wide range of reports listing data from tables can be produced in just two or three minutes without any programming at all. A slightly modified version of URG2 that will run in v7.01 is now available. It includes a couple of example tables to allow a quick test of what it does. The article from dBulletin No. 9 is not repeated in this alternate file so download the main file as well to get this.

• Exploiting the Power of the Visual dBASE 7 Language - Ken Chan  (54k)
• Example code etc. for "Exploiting the Power ..." etc. - Ken Chan   (26k)
• User Report Generator - Bob Rimmington and others   (78k)
• Mark II User Report Generator - Bob Rimmington (586k)
• URG Mark II for v7.01, program only - Bob Rimmington (95k)
• Example parent and child forms (Tips1.zip)  (2k)
• Jon Webb's Debugging programs (Debugit.zip) (5k)

dBulletin

New dBASE Electronic Magazine. The 10th issue of dBulletin has just been released, see below for details. Each consists of articles by and for dBASE programmers. Each article is in HTM format and comes with pictures and, where relevant, example code or programs. In all, the eight issues contain over 40 articles. A new index to all issue is now on the web sites below.

No VdB developer can afford to be without the bulletins.The articles range from invaluable little tips and ideas, some new to all of us surely, to in-depth explanations of how to use WIN-API calls and how to send emails from within VdB. The overall quality is very high and many of the included controls and routines can be dropped straight into our own applications.

The magazine can be read on-line or downloaded for reading off-line (there is a zip file for each issue containing the full contents). To view or download, click on link below - in each case this will take you to Issue 1 but from that you can navigate to all subsequent issues.

Canada http://www.jpmartel.com/bultin01.htm
France (http://www.fghoche.com/dbulletin/bultin01.htm)
Germany http://www.tnm.de/dBulletin/bultin01.htm
New Zealand http://www.compkarori.com/dbase/bultin01.htm
South Africa http://www.dbase.co.za/resource/dbulletin/bultin01.htm
Sweden http://www.sakia.se/dbulletin/bultin01.htm
U.S.A. http://www.staubassociates.com/dbase/bultin01.htm

Issue No. 1

• Creating a Cool Desktop - George Burt 
• Y2K Code Scanning - Robert Bravery  
• A TreeDropper Control - Dan Howard
• A Calculated Field in a Grid - Peter Rorlick
• Highlight Cells in a Grid - Jean-Pierre Martel
• SQL for dBASE - Gary White
• The dBASE News Groups - Peter Rorlick
• Subscribing to dBASE2000 News Group - Jean-Pierre Martel

Issue No. 2

• How to Excel at Reports - Michael Joyce
• A New Mover Class - Jean-Pierre Martel
• Autoincrement Fields - Peter Rorlick
• The Local SQL Help Files - Steve Koterski

Issue No. 3

• A Password Application - Robert Bravery
• A dBASE History - Jean-Pierre Martel
• Useful Reusable code - Robert W Newman
• Test your dBASE IQ - Peter Rorlick
• BDE and InstallShield - Michael Rotteck

Issue No. 4

• Application with its own Desktop - Robert Bravery
• dBulletin Article Loader - Jean-Pierre Martel
• Mail Merge & Custom Report Generator - John York
• Multi-Table Datamodule Reports - Michael Joyce
• Test your dBASE IQ - 2 - Peter Rorlick
• The Seeker Control - Peter Rorlick

Issue No. 5

• Application Base Wizard - Todd Kreuter
• IDE Tipes and Tricks - Peter Rorlick
• A Language Independant Application - Robert Bravery
• Variables and Properties - Dan Howard
• New BDE 5.10 - Michael Rotteck

Issue No. 6

• The dBASE E-mail Centre - Jean-Pierre Martel
• API 32 Functions and C Structures - Nicholas Martin
• Finally! @ Say ... Get in v7 - George Burt
• Manipulating Names - Peter Rorlick

Issue No. 7

• Accessing Windows Secrets from dBASE - Robert Bravery
• Coordinating a Sigle Database from Multiple Sites - Robert Newman
• Introduction to ActiveX Controls - Jean-Pierre Martel
• Serial Communications under Visual dBASE - Nicolas Martin
• A Simple Web Application - Michael Nuwer
• User-configurable Text Objects - Peter Rorlick

Issue No. 8

• An Animated Splash Screen - Robert Bravery
• CD Deployment - Ronnie MacGregor
• Debugging in a Complex Loop - Bob Rimmington
• Sending Email by Program Control - Greg Neid
• Query/Response Wizard (for the Web) - John Staub
• Vic McClung's Printer/Preview Class - David Stone

Issue No. 9

• Inno Setup and Script maker - Robert Bravery
• Resource Workshop - Jean-Pierre Martel
• McClung's Printer Class - Vic McClung
• User Report Generator - Bob Rimmington
• HTML Table resp. Page - John Staub
• Web app Version(0) Test - John Staub
• Non-modal Conversation - Paul White

Issue No.10

• Visually Design a Toolbar - Robert Bravery
• Drag'n Drop in Listbox - Jean-Peerre Martel
• Lines, Boxes and Images - Vic McClung
• Building Web Applications - Michael Nuwer
• Application on ISP Server - Colyn Serfontein

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