Installation notes

• If you are using XFRX with source codes, please note that four header (*.H) files have been added:
  • xfrx.h
  • reportlisteners.h
  • reportlisteners_locs.h
  • foxpro_reporting.h
• Before compiling XFRX, make sure you define the VFP version you are using in xfrx.h. (Please find more information about differences between XFRX for VFP 8 and XFRX for VFP 9 in the Developer's guide at http://www.eqeus.com/xfrxmanual.php).
• To reduce the download size, XFRX.APP is not part of the precompiled packages any more and we recommend that you add XFRX.FXP into your projects instead, which enables XFRX to access reports and other resouce files compiled into an exe file. If you prefer using XFRX.APP, please create a project with one file - XFRX.FXP - and build the APP.
• Please be aware that hndlib.dll and xfrxlib.fll have been modified
• In order to save reports as pictures or to use the printing feature, XFRX requires two additional libraries to be installed:
  • msvcr71.dll - Microsoft Visual C++ 7.1 runtime library and is distributed with VFP 9.0. If it is not installed on your pc, you can download it from http://www.eqeus.com/files/msvcr71.zip.
  • gdiplus.dll - This dll is included in WindowsXP as well as VFP 8.0 and VFP 9.0. If it is not available on your pc, you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdkredist.htm.

If you are not planning to export reports as pictures or print, you can download a special version of XFRXLIB.FLL (http://www.eqeus.com/files/xfrxlib-nogdiplus.zip ), which doesn't require the two dlls mentioned above. This version is also available in the nogdip subdirectory of the evaluation and commercial package.

• Turkish (1254) and Greek (1253) code pages are now supported in the PDF output

• A printer properties dialog for a given printer can now be invoked from XFRX, returning the printer properties structure as a string. This string can be saved as a user preference and sent to XFRX when printing. This functionality is similar to SYS(1037) introduced in VFP 9.0, with two differences/improvements:

  • The page setup and printer selection dialogs are skipped, which saves two clicks for the users and preempts confusions in case the printer has already been selected. (Very often, there is a printer selection box in the "main" form and a button to invoke printer properties).

  • This implementation works in earlier versions of Visual FoxPro, too (from VFP 5.0)

• A custom printer properties structure can be used when XFRX transforms the output to a printer

• HNDLIB.DLL and XFRXLIB.FLL versions check. When the required library version is not available, the warning message displays:

  • The version of currently used library file 

  • the required version

  • the location of currently used library file

• This version introduces custom scripts. Custom scripts are methods or code snippets written in Visual FoxPro, which can be linked to objects on the report or triggered during the processing of the report, and can be used to "draw" to the report being processed: to generate pictures, add any custom graphics (graphs, watermarks, etc.), text objects, hyperlinks, bookmarks and many more.
  The new version also allows to bypass the reporting engine altogether and create any of the output formats supported by XFRX from scratch – directly from your Visual FoxPro code.  
  Please see the Developer's guide at http://www.eqeus.com/xfrxmanual.php for more information.
• Text message of the error codes returned by SetParam method can now be retrieved with ErrorMessage method.

• XFRX is now able to print the generated reports. You can print the stored XFF files as well as print directly from the advanced previewer.The advanced previewer implements a simple printer selection dialog, with an option to select page ranges to print, which can be easily overwritten by a custom form. Please see the Developer's guide at http://www.eqeus.com/xfrxmanual.php for more information.