Forcing bands to be a fixed height? RB 7.02 Enterprise, Delphi 6.02

rbuser

All,
Is there a way to force the height of the detail band? Here's what I am
trying to do. We are deploying the end-user designer to end users to allow
them to print a single item on a label (sort of like shipping labels). We
have specific printers that are being used with specific label sizes. What
I would like to be able to do is give the end-user the ability to change the
fields and graphics, but not the size of the page.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
- David Scheidt
Security Information Systems Corporation

digitalmetaphors

If there are stretchable controls in a detail band, then the detail band
will be dynamic height. If you have static height controls only in the
detail band, then you should be able to specify the height of the detail
band when it is static height. You will have to let the user add the
stretchabel controls and then before the report prints, loop through the
objects and set any stretchable controls to not stretch. There is an article
on performing a report object loop in the code based thread of the tech-tips
newsgroup. Do this before the report prints and set Stretch to false and
that may do the trick.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors