memos at run-time

rbuser

Hello,
I have two problems concerning memos.

The first one is :
I have set three memos m1 , m2, and mRel at design time all on a same
band, and I set to m1 the ShiftRelativeto property of mRel.
m1 is fixed and not related to any other memo. I use this memo only to have
a basis where I place mRel on the layout. m2 is a tppdbmemo.
After loading my foo.rtm, I Would like to set at run-time the
shiftrelativeto property of mRel to m2 only if the sum Height+Top of m2
(height of m2 is therefore
the height of the Rectangle in which my text sits) is greater than
Height+Top of m1.
How can i do to have an access to this height?

Mt second problem concern a tppmemo m0, that I want to modify at run-time.
How do I insert text in m0 :
I tried m0.Text:= 'MyText', but when I wnat to add some to My text,
I tried m0.Text:= m0.Text+ 'AnotherText'.
But I obtain two lines the result gives on the layout :
"
My Text
AnotherText.
"
How can I do to get Only One Line ?
In the same way I would like to know how I can control the Number of lines
I have in the memo m0.

Thanks for your helpfull suggestions, future and past.
Xavier Droubay
(on the box of Richard Hiero)

digitalmetaphors

Since the memos are dynamic height, you can't tell beforehand which one is
taller until the detailband has generated. Use a region to contain the two
top memos. Then set the bottom memo to shift relative to the region, since
the region has to stretch to contain the two memos.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

I solved my problem by using your suggestion, so Thank You.

But now I have a problem that is rather more complicated than the one
before.
I have a band B1 in which I have set Two regions R1 and R2 that have the
same top, i.e.
R1 is in front of R2 (but R1 and R2 can have different heights).
Each region Ri contains a shape Spi that is stretching with Ri.

In R1, I have five memos dbme11, dbme12, me13, me14 and dbMe5 that must sit
in the
Shape Sp1 :
dbme11 is on the top.
dbme12 is under and shiftrelatedto dbme11,
me13 is under and shiftrelatedto dbme12, and
me14 and dbme15 are both under and shiftrelatedto me13.

In R2, I have eight memos me21, dbme22, me23, dbme24, me25, dbme26, me27
and dbme28
that must sit in the Shape Sp2 :
me21 and dbme22 are on the top of R2
me23 and dbme24 are under and shiftrelatedto dbme22,
me25 and dbme26 are under and shiftrelatedto dbme24,
me27 and dbme28 are under and shiftrelatedto dbme26,


B1 looks a bit like this at designtime in the conception window :

-------------------- -----------------
| dbme11 | | me21 dbme22 |
| dbme12 | | me23 dbme24 |
| me13 | | me25 dbme26 |
| me14 dbme15 | |me27 dbme28 |
-------------------- -----------------

All the dbmeij memos are stretchable and eventually empty.
All the meij memos are fixed at design-time, except me13 that is stretchable
because
the me13.Text is a memo that is set at run-time.

I didn't find how to replace me14 and use this memo with a fixed caption as
a label.
(If I use me14 as a Tpplabel (let say lb14), the shiftwithparent=True for
lb14 will put
my label out of the shape, and the shiftwithparent=False will not allow the
me14 component
to shift relatively to dynamic height of me13).

I have a problem if dbme12 or dbme11 are (both) empty, because I want to
have in this case a lay out with some space above me13. Is there an easy
way to Solve this problem ?
If I use multiple regions the shapes Sp1 and Sp2 will then have to be out of
these regions and then both stretchable relatively to the parent band B1. I
will thus loose the independance of height between
Sp1 and Sp2, that is why I use only two regions.

Moreover, I don't know how to add some text me13 so that
the result of me13.Text:=me13.Text + 'MyNewText' doesn't add a line
and put 'MyNewText' on a new line, but this may be not a question for a
ReportBuilder
NewsGroup.

Thank you for your cooperation, and sorry if it is not well explained.
Xavier Droubay

digitalmetaphors

> I have a problem if dbme12 or dbme11 are (both) empty, because I want to

The goal is to set the shift relative to only when there is one of the two
above memo has data, otherwise, don't shift relative to. This doesn't seem
to work very well, as it resets the report engine. I cam eup with an
alternative which uses a condtion bottom offset on the top memo to force the
one below it to print further down even though ShiftRelativeTo is assigned.
This approach seems to work. If you want, you can feed datapipeline data to
a standard memo control in stead of using a dbMemo if you need to assign an
empty string to the memo so that it works as shown in the example.

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

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors