Shifting / Invisibility

rbuser

Hello -

Is there a way to make part of a detail area shift up to take over the space
left by a detail line that was made invisible? Thanks for any help.

David Kilmer

digitalmetaphors

Yes, use the DetailBand.BeforePrint event to set the visibilty of the detail
band. It works in tests here. I used RAP, but here is the code. Basically, I
create a table dump of the DBDemos Biolife table in a simple report that
only had a DBText in the detail band. Biolife is the name of my pipeline:

if (Biolife['Common_Name'] = 'Firefish') then
begin

Detail.Visible := False;
DBText1.Font.Color := clRed;

end

else
begin

Detail.Visible := True;
DBText1.Font.Color := clBlue;

end;

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors