Label Visible vs. Height

rbuser

Hello,

I am upgrading a Delphi project which uses Reportbuilder reports. The height
property of a pplabel on a report was set to zero in order to suppress the
label. In RB12 the same call sets the height to zero but the label is still
visible. Any ideas?

Thank you,
Mike Malinowski

nardmoseley

When AutoSize is True, the Height is calculated based upon the Font. This
enhancement was made based on customer feedback. Customers repeatedly
reported bugs with Labels and DBText not printing correctly.

As you mention, the correct way to suppress a Label is to set the Visible
property to False.

If you set Height to 0, you also need to set AutoSize to False.

If you have hundreds of old reports that use that technique of setting the
Height and do not want to change them, you could change the source code
located in ppCtrls.pas, the method TppCustomText.CalcSpaceUsed


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Thank you very much for the detailed reply and the suggested workaround
Mike.