Sug: Printing exact multiples of Detail Band height

rbuser

Hi,
This is a little suggestion that I see is extremely useful when printing on
pre-printed forms, especially in a case like mine where the form has
specific blocks for detail band information (say 8), and just as it might
happen when filling forms manually, when the information to be printed
exceeds the specified area, you utilize the next block as much as you wish
to, then you start filling information for the next record starting at the
beginning of the NEXT block.

I believe a property of the Dynamic detail band that says something like
"Exact Multiples of Height" would be extremely useful, maintaining that
dynamic height is really a bless, it is not always feasible to not have some
kind of control over what is the "max", "min" or "steps" of the height
variation.

I managed to get that effect but it is not just as perfect as I think it can
be. I use a stretchable memo where I assign 4 lines, 8 lines or 12 lines of
text to get detail band heights of 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 as necessary.

Can I hope for something like that with a future release? or is there
another way to do it?

Thanks.

Ahmed Zahran

nardmoseley

There are currently a couple of techniques for printing within a fixed
area of a form.

1. Use a subreport set to PrintBehavior of pbFixed. Size the subreport
to occupy the required amount of page space (you can set ParentWidth to
False to size the subreport's width). Optionally set
subreport.TraverseAllData (see the RBuilder.hlp for this topic).

2. Use a subreport set to pbChild and set the subreport.StopPosition.