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Using form .OVL files ?? #1107 29 Apr 15 02:23 PM
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Hello -

Looking for some advice in designing a simple invoice form. I have the data already and i want to create the form around the data.

So do i have to create the form before each invoice? i guess so since each page is a new instance. Can i use the OVERLAY option for this? But i don't want to add this to the printer.ini file i would like to call it from the program... possible?

Or do i just repeat the same //gdi commands at the beginning of each form?

Thanks.

Re: Using form .OVL files ?? #1108 29 Apr 15 03:02 PM
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You can specify the overlay as a parameter to the XCALL SPOOL statement.

Or, you can just create a subroutine in your application that draws the form, and call it at the start of each page. (That's pretty much how the OVERLAY option works anyway.)

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Ok thanks very much for the reply. Will do.


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