Fixing Yet Another Report Designer Issue

Last month I blogged about an issue in the VFP Report Designer that causes a “printer not ready” error if you don’t have a default printer set up, as is sometimes the case in a Terminal Server environment. Recently I discovered a related issue: the same error occurs when opening the Page Setup dialog. The cause is the SET(‘PRINTER’, 3) statement in the LoadDeviceInfo method of FRXDeviceHelper in _FRXCursor.VCX. The fix is to wrap that statement in a TRY structure.