AfterAutoPageBreak problem with VPE 3.5 and VFP ?

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Hi all,

I have a situation where I have a function that generates a VPE Report with some header information that I set in the AfterAutoPageBreak event of the VpeControl.VpeControl.35 OLE control (instance is called VPEDoc).

First time through with a multipage report there are no problems and the AfterAutoPageBreak event fires for each page and creates the header, but if I generate the report again in the same session (by blowing away VPEDoc and recreating the report) the AfterAutoPageBreak event doesnt fire.

Anyone have any ideas ?

VPE 3.5 / Visual Foxpro 6&9...

Cheers,
Matt.

[IDEAL Software Support]

What does "blowing away VPEDoc" mean? Maybe you destroy the ActiveX and your event-listener is not reconnected to the control. To destroy the document, just call VPE.CloseDoc().

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Apologies... I'm new to both VFP and VPE and I'm still trying to get a handle on the framework.

I have a form in VFP (named VPEForm) with the VPE ActiveX control embedded (named VPEDoc) on the form.

What I meant by "blowing VPEDoc away and recreating it" was that we release the form in VFP and reinstantiate it, thereby reinstantiating the ActiveX control (VPEDoc) as well.

Would this have an effect on the ActiveX event listeners ?

One of the things that bothers me is that the process for instantiating the VPE ActiveX object the first time is the same as the second (ie. we instantiate the form that contains the control) so I should see the problem in both cases, shouldnt I ?

Matt.

[IDEAL Software Support]

To be honest, we do not know Visual FoxPro. The VPE ActiveX has definitely no problems in being re-instantiated. Maybe you should ask in a Visual FoxPro group about the general use and instantiation of ActiveX controls.

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Ok. Solved it.

For anyone else who has trouble with this, you need to set .AutoYield to false (.F.) in your foxpro app. before making use of the ActiveX object.

cheers,
Matt.

[IDEAL Software Support]

Thanks for your update.

(BTW, the AutoYield thing is described in the readme of the VFOX sample files of VPE.)