Controls outside of bands

edited 11:11PM in FastReport 3.0
Hello,

if I put controls outside of bands, how will they be displayed in my report? How does FastReport make sure, that these elements to not intervene with other bands or are they always dispalyed on top of each other?

Example: If I place a marker for a hope puncher on the left side of the Report just in the middle of a page, will that work? And how can I repeat this symbol for every page of my report?

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  • gordkgordk St.Catherines On. Canada.
    edited 11:11PM
    use an overlay band to contain the holemarker objects.
    hint
    set designer to unlimited height
    after finishing your design add an overlay band make its height large enough to postion the objects vertically where you want them to appear.
    an overlay always starts at the page top ;)
  • edited 11:11PM
    Thank you gordk,

    your hint was good. It works. I tried to set e.g. the top property of the rectangle that I use as marker, and found a strange behaviour. The top property in the object inspector uses obviously cm as unit, but it seems, that the code expects another unit (may be pixels?). How can I change this? ;)
  • gordkgordk St.Catherines On. Canada.
    edited 11:11PM
    Objects??? coordinates and sizes are set in pixels. Since the ?«Left,?» ?«Top,?» ?«Width,?» and ?«Height?» properties of all objects have the ?«Extended?» type, you can point out non-integer values. The following constants are defined for converting pixels into centimeters and inches:



    fr01cm = 3.77953;

    fr1cm = 37.7953;

    fr01in = 9.6;

    fr1in = 96;



    For example, a band???s height equal to 5 mm can be set as follows:



    Band.Height := fr01cm * 5;

    Band.Height := fr1cm * 0.5;
    You can alter the default value of the designer, view menu options
    my own personal pref is to work in pixels.

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