Printing different flavour of detail bands-basic question

rbuser

Hi,

Printing a failry basic report, one row in a tbale = one detail band. Now
want to introduce different flavoured rows, the first(original) reuires one
line and second flavour requires two lines with additional data items.

What is easiest way of achieving this .

Cheers

Tony Peppercorn

rbuser

I should add that each detail line is either one flavour or the other.

digitalmetaphors

The easiest approach is to use two regions. The region component is similar
to a TPanel, because it "parents" the controls in it. Place the different
controls for each flavor in the separate regions. Then control them by
setting the region's visibility in the Detailband.BeforePrint event. (Be
sure to reset them to visible false/true in the 'else' of the 'if then'
statement). To make sure the components are parented by the region, drag the
region araound in the designer- the components should move with it. To place
a component in a region, just drag the component into the region's boxed
area.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Great Jim, thanks very much

Regards

Tony