Hi all,
How to simplify the user experience re. generating, viewing and printing reports in a Windows environment?
Currently I display report output in an MF Dialog system window and have a [print] button to print using various MF COBOL routines, PC_PRINTER_SET_DEFAULT, PC_PRINTER_SET_FONT etc. The reports are basic using fixed-spaced characters to force column alignment. They look old-fashioned and text is small.
HOW DO YOU PRINT from Visual COBOL?
I'm wondering about launching a browser to handle the print so users can re-size, use browser's print / pdf-export etc. Any thoughts?
I'm about to switch to MYSQL - perhaps you'd recommend tools that can report from MYSQL directly?
ANY THOUGHTS WELCOME.
Regards, Linden