Request for explanation

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• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  November 2004 edited 6:39PM

  As long as the right memo will interfere with an object to the left it will only move left that far or until it hits another object
  now look at what would happen if the memo to the left was small and auto sized
  as the text gets larger the right memo will move in relation.
  this also allows you to align the memos in a band to each other such that if you wanted to move all objects in the band to the right, then all you need to adjust is the left margin
  if it was the old way then if they both had internal left align one would overwrite the other.
  IMHO it is a good feature.
  
• user3997

  November 2004 edited 6:39PM

  I guess so.
  
  My only problem was when I would place a memo field on a band, in
  order to get a grey background, such as in a header. If the text of the
  header was autowidth and was aligned to be band-wide the memo I
  would place on the band would disappear and I would lose where it went
  because it's width went to 0. This would work either way, the shadow
  memo field first would make the text memo disappear.
  I guess the only way to work it is to put one above the other and then
  make them both band-wide and then shift one over the other until they
  line up.
  If you were ever to add the ability to make a band, itself, have a frame
  and a color this would not be a problem.
  
  Steve Fields
• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  November 2004 edited 6:39PM

  try using send to back when you add the memo for color then add others over top and see what happens.
  
• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  November 2004 edited 6:39PM

  forget that last message
  i see what your up against.
  
• user3997

  December 2004 edited 6:39PM

  Any ideas on how to get around this?
  Or is it maybe fixed in 3.07?
  
  Thanks
  Steve Fields
• AlexTZ

  December 2004 edited 6:39PM

  This is by design, it's not a bug!