Shifting components horizontally

rbuser

Hello,

I am using two components: Variable and Label next to each other.
The Variable will display a number which is in a required currency display
format.
The label is just text. The two components should display as a sentence in a
letter.
The problem I am having is that the Label component will not shift to the
right when
the Variable component's size changes.

Example below shows how the text can get overwritten because of the Variable
value

Variable Label
$3,000.00 . In the event that you fail to pay the balance
$2,000,000.0n the event that you fail to pay the balance

Any suggestions for this. Is there a way to make a component shift to the
right.

Thanks in advance
Prathy

rbuser

I think no! But this is solved with calc field anytime I have to shift
right! Other way is before event to assign values!
In my case such a thing always work!
Regards,
DV

rbuser

Yes, I tried with the calc field (Variable component) to do this, i.e. in
the Before Print event of the calc tab such as

example: Variable1.AsString := Datapipeline[Numberfield] + ' . In the
event that you fail to pay the balance';

This does solve the shifting. However, now I have my datafield value and
text in the same component. This means that I cannot put a currency display
format for the datafield value alone as the calc component must now be a
string. My Datapipeline[Numberfield] is of type double but I want to set the
display format to:
$#,0.00;-$#,0.00

Any suggestions for this. Thanks.
Prathy

digitalmetaphors

RBAddOn components has native support for display formats embedded in text
with their Merge Fields technique. Surf www.bancoems.com\RBAddOn.htm for a
demo.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors