Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:28, Carl Karsten wrote:
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>>Kinda. They both have a surface that you place/move/size/align objects,
>>the objects have props.
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> Do you see a parallel to the use of sizers to lay out a report as there is
> for forms? Perhaps I'm not seeing this, because I've always worked with exact
> placement of fields in a report. Then again, it took me a while to get
> comfortable with laying out forms using sizers, too.
I can't see sizers for reports. Seems unnecessarily complex to me.
Although, there wouldn't be any reason they couldn't be added in the future.
>>on a report. a
>>PrintPageNo or PrintWhen prop will dynamical define which page to print
>>(and a "print tab boarders" prop that defaults to false.) That way an
>>address block (name/addr1/addr2/city,st,zip) can have several formats for
>>the last line to cover other countries.
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> Yeah, I like that idea a lot.
I've anticipated the desire to have an unlimited number of detail bands
and groupings, to lay them out separately, and to conditionally print
one or more detail bands. The designer interface to each of these
elements could indeed be a pageframe. A "page" on a report doesn't
necessarily have a 1:1 correlation with a "band" (but it could). Am I
understanding the vision correctly?
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