Fixed Text & DataBand side by side

swdevlin

Hi,

I am trying to lay out a report where there are, in effect, two columns. The left column has the rows of data and the right column has fixed text. I tried to use an overlay band but there are instances where the data in the left column is small and so the overlay band bleeds into the footer. Ascii art example:

{       HEADER     }
{ROWS}  {Fixed Text}
{      Footer      }

Any ideas as to how to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Shawn

swdevlin

So I think I have a solution, just not sure it is the best one.

I added a handler for AfterCalcHeight to resize the footer band so that it will expand to cover the height of an overlay band.

procedure Footer1OnAfterCalcHeight(Sender: TfrxComponent);
begin
  if Engine.CurY + Footer1.Height < Overlay1.Height then                                                                                                          
    Footer1.Height := Overlay1.Height - Engine.CurY;
end;

Took a while to find Engine.CurY but once I did this seems to work.

I would still prefer a solution that does not use code though.

Shawn

gordk

did you not try to set the databand's stretch property to true and the memoview's stretch mode properties.