Data report designer question

[JackV]

Hi,

Can the VB6 Data Report Designer run if it has no data source?

What I'm trying to do is to display and then print a report with values that were entered and or calculated that are held in some text boxes on my main form.

In the main form module this doesn't seem to work:

rptMyReport.text1.text = txtName.text

I get an object or method not defined error.

Nor this in the Data Report Initialize event:

text1.text = frmMain.txtName.text

I get an object required error.

I imagine I can write the data to a text file, but can the Data Report Designer use a text file as a data source? Hell, can the Crystal Report Component? If they can I'm having trouble figuring how to connect them.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,
Jack Vinitsky

[Kersey]

What is the purpose of all this ???

don't set the textfield but the caption of a label !

RptMY.Sections("ReportHeader")
.Controls("lblTypOMyrpt").Caption = "This is working"

[JackV]

Thanks for your help Kersey,

I did the following which worked:
rptMyReport.Sections("Section1").Controls.Item("Label1").Caption = strMyVariable

All I want to do is to print out some data from the user form onto a report. I don't need to store it anywhere nor do I need the user to go back to it later.

I still couldn't get this the data report to open without a data source, currently I'm using an OLE DB driver for an ODBC Text Driver connected to a bogus text file as my data source.

Now if I can open this report without having a data source, I'll be all set.