I had a great idea for Paradox/DOS reports, maybe someone here can
tell me why it WON'T work....or what alternative there is:
Don't you want to print PAGE X of Y as a header on each report page?
Convenient PAL features NPAGES() AND PAGENO() sounded like a
good place to start.  (They usually report only page WIDTHS).
I assigned whatpage=pageno() and used this in calculated field.
But I have to GET to the last page to do this.  Tell me I'm
reinventing the wheel and this old problem is solved in the
documention somewhere!
This seems awful round-about to me, eh what?
I discover that I can't issue PAL commands inside Report View on
screen (Report Output Screen).  Not even {Menu} commands, so that
I could {Menu} {Goto} {Endofreport} and assign PAGENO() to
a variable.  (Idea works  with page widths, and with page
showing in Report Designer)
;pagetest script
     {Report} {Change} {pagetest}
     {R} {Work Hours Report by Job / Craft}
     Menu {Output} {Screen} ;these never operate {Menu} {Goto} {Endofreport}
     ;first assign variable, second re-view to see results - blechh!
     SLEEP 3000
     WHATPAGE=PAGENO()  ;in calculated field in report
     Do_It! {Report} {Change} {pagetest} {R}
     {Work Hours Report by Job / Craft} Menu {Output} {Screen}
puts a nice header on page from Report Designer, not the report.
There's also NROWS() but I hesitate to put much more faith there.
Ideas?
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