Printing continuous vertical lines on a page

rbuser

I designed a report which has several columns separated by vertical lines
(the rows are also separated by horizontal lines). I also have a footer
band. I have placed some regions inside the detailed band (which one is
printed depends on the record type). Inside the regions I have place
vertical lines separating the fields/columns. My problem is that there is
usually a gap left above the footer of the page and the last region printed.
This of course is normal since nothing is printed there but is not
acceptable. One solution is to use page style as I do in invoice documents
but in this case the page styles of the first, last and the rest of the
pages differ eg the first page has a header.
Any solution?
Thanks in advance
Yannis

digitalmetaphors

Here is a demo which shows how to take full control over the drawing on the
page by adding draw commands to the page object after the report engine is
finished drawing on the page before it is sent to the devices. This demo
draws lines from the bottom of the last detail the top of the footer band.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/DrawLineOnEachSide.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thank you Jim. This works.
Can I do the same in RAP? I tried to save the current position in a global
var using "ppReport1.Engine.PrintPosRect.Top" but I get error when compiling
the error "Error DetailAfterPrint. Line 3: Expecting ( or [ but found
'PrintPosRect' instead".
Is there a way around it and if yes can I create drawing objects in RAP
(like the example)?
Thank you in advance
Yannis

digitalmetaphors

Yes you can create RAP pass through functions to do this in RAP. Here is an
example which creates a few for you:

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/RAPDrawCommands.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim,
That's exactly the solution I thought of.
By the way the site with the tips seems to be very useful but I cannot get
into it. I get the message "Your are not authorized to view this page" when
I try http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips
Is that the way it should be or I' m doing something wrong?
Thanks
Yannis

digitalmetaphors

This page is not setup for public viewing. Only links into it are available
when we post them. Our TODO list includes creating a webpage so that these
projects could be a better resource with descriptions as well as the
downloads.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors