Re: CRISTAL REPORTS FROM FORMS45 32BIT

[Quoted] I was told by the people at Seagate that it was impossible to call a Crystal report from Forms 4.5 using either OCX or VBX due to limitations with the Forms 4.5 Implementation of OCX. I spent a considerable amount of time trying to get it to work before receiving this news. The trouble was that I always seemed tantalisingly close to a solution but in the end it was in vain. I decided to give it up and switched to Oracle Reports 2.5 instead. Once I got used to the barmy frames idea it wasn't so bad but I did miss the easy formatting of Crystal. I understand that some some of those features are now present in Reports 3 although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

James

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:58:05 +0100, "Van Nieuwenhuyse" <van_nieuwenhuyse_luytens_at_online.be> wrote:

>Did anybody call Cristal Reports Reports from within FORMS 4.5 (32bit
>version on W95)?
>
>It seems you can't call it as an executable with parameters. (Using the host
>command or
>the winexec api) . You need to call it as an OCX. I was told Forms 4.5 does
>not have
>fulle OCX compliancy. Did anyone do this job before? If so please can you
>reply with
>an example form?
>
>Any suggestions are welcome, please if you know what I'm asking is
>impossible - tell me.
>
>
Received on Sat Jan 16 1999 - 02:49:41 CET