printing ppMemos on pagebrakes

rbuser

Hi,

i have to generate a report with about 12 streched ppMemos on it.

The first contains 4 lines in a textheader (font is bold) and the second
contains the information.
The third contains a 4 lines in a textheader and the next Memo contains text
so on. The textmemos are between 2 and 250 lines. The headermemos are always
4 lines long.

The KeepTogether propertie of the headermemos are set to true and the
textmemos are set to false;

In some situations a header memo is printed on the bottom of a page and the
text on the next page.
I such situations i want to print the headermemo on the completly on next
page. ( no reprint! )

I cant use a regions because i get situations where the complete Region is
printed on the next page. So i get pages wich more than 50% empty.

Can anyone give me a solution for this problem?


Thanks for the support

Knut
(lambert@consilium.de)

digitalmetaphors

You will have to check the position of the report engine's PrintPosRect,
when the detail band prints, to see how far down the page it is generating
in order to keep from orphaning a body memo from the header memo. Here is
an example for a technique to print a header memo and body memo as you have
described. The header will only print when the body memo can begin printing
at the bottom of the page.

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

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi Jim,

thanks for ?our support. How can i use this in a subreport. There is no
propertie Engine in it.

Knut Lambert
CONSILIUM GmbH

digitalmetaphors

There is an Engine property is on the Subreport.Report object. To use this
technique in a subreport, I have uploaded a new version of the demo. Use
the same link to download this version:

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


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Sorry Jim, i cant use your solution.

some more Informations to my report.

1.) The main Reprot contains 12 Subreprots PrintBehavior set to pbSection.
2.) The mainreport has no heder- or footerband.
3.) Each subreprot has its own header- and footerband.
4.) Each subreport is totaly different form the others; the contens (all 12
reports together) is a psychological certificate.
5.) The user can deselct some of the subreprots.
6.) One of the reports contains 12 ppMemos (not databound). The Text of the
memeos is calculated before the
memo is printed.

When changing your example to this conditions (2,3) it cant work because of
a missing Headerband
in the mainreprot.

When trying to change your code to the subreprot and the ppMemos, the
variables
(translated to your example) memHedaer.Top, MemHeader.Height,
FMaxStartingPosition etc. containig
the values i gave them in the designediotor. So the code dose nothing at
all.

I am dealing with this problem since two month and i cant find any solution.
I have always the problem, that the variables

rbuser

Sorry i pressed CTRL-RETURN

-- variables (propertys) i dealing with contains not the values i found in
the documentation or in
other newsinfos.

Hope you are patient and can gave me an other hint.

Thanks so far

Knut

digitalmetaphors

I changed the demo a little to use a section style subreport and different
timing to calculate the position. You will need to calculate the last
possible starting position of the header memo in the
Subreport.Report.OnStartPage event, because each subrepot can have
headers/footers or none at all. Each subreport will have its own event
handler in order to account for this. Essentially, use the approach that
this demo takes in that you can calulate the last possible position on the
page that the header memo can print, before it will not leave enough room
for the next memo to print at least one line of text at the bottom of the
page.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors