Resize detail band

rbuser

Hi,

I need to dynamically resize the detail band. There will be one record in
my report that will require a label and a line to be displayed. On all of
the other records, I want to make the height of the detail band less to
take up the extra white space from the line and lable (which aren't
displayed on all but one record).

I have the following code, and it works great if the report is only run
once, unfortunately, it seems that once I resize the detail band, it can't
be resized again. Therefore, if the report is run a second time with the
exact same data, all of the records have the smaller detail band height,
including the one that needs to display the label and line. Any ideas?

If dm.tblOutput.FieldByName('Unique').AsInteger = firstNonZero Then
Begin

lnOptional.Visible := True;
lblOptionalPricing.Visible := True;
ppDetailBand1.Height := 0.6979;
End
Else
Begin
lnOptional.Visible := False;
lblOptionalPricing.Visible := False;
If dm.tblOutput.FieldByName('Unique').AsInteger > firstNonZero Then
ppDetailBand1.Height := 0.5000;
End;



--- posted by geoForum on http://delphi.newswhat.com

nicocizik

Hi,

Instead of trying to manually resize the detail band, try setting its
PrintHeight to phDynamic and simply toggling the visibility of the label and
line in code. If the band is a dynamic height, then it will snap to the
correct size based on the bottom-most component.

--
Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

nicocizik

To handle the situation where a static component (such as a Label or DBText)
is above other static components, you will need to use regions. For
instance, if you place a region with Stretch set to True at the top of the
detail band with your label inside, then place another region with all your
other detail components inside below and have it ShiftRelativeTo the first
region, when you set the visibility of the label at the top to False, the
second region will shift up and fill the empty space.

--
Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Ok,

The label that I was turning the visibility on/off is at the top of the
detail band. Is that why it's not resizing?





--- posted by geoForum on http://delphi.newswhat.com

rbuser

Ok,

I tried moving the label and line that will be toggled on/off to the
bottom of the band. Unfortunately, this doesn't work at all. On records
that display the label/line, it places them on top of a rich text control
that is also in the detail band! So it looks totally muddled. How can
this be resolved? I have the detail band set to dynamic.




--- posted by geoForum on http://delphi.newswhat.com

rbuser

Using regions worked perfectly! Thanks for the help!





--- posted by geoForum on http://delphi.newswhat.com