Form Design

rbuser

Hi all from an old customer..

I am trying to design a form in report builder using box shapes. Although in
the screen I see the boxes as aligned, in the zoomed preview or in printing
I see one pixel difference.. I checked the properties on the inspector and
they are correct.. Wassup?

nicocizik

Hi Vassilis,

This is a known issue with shapes that has been present in the product since
the beginning. The recommended way to create grids/forms with ReportBuilder
is to use the TppLine object, similar to the way they are drawn by the field
tree and crosstab.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Erm I am not used to this type of answers your sources are so well
structured I'd say.... its time to fix it

nicocizik

Hi Vassilis,

We did in fact fix this issue a while back however it ended up breaking many
of our existing customers' reports who depend on the backward compatibility
of the product. This is why we decided to revert back for the time being
and recommend that lines should be used instead of shapes for these style
reports.

It is on our todo list to possibly create separate "old" and "new" shape
components that solve the issue and retain backward compatibility but this
will need to wait for a later release. Thanks for your feedback.

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Regards,

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