Author: Ken Watkins
Posted: 2005-10-19 at 15:04:27
Ted -
I ran into something like this once.
The best I could do was use the line drawing tool
and place a small horizontal line between the two
paragraphs. Otherwise, VFP seemed to lose its sense
of location. It fixed my problem, not sure if it will
help yours.
Ken Watkins
Ted Roche wrote:
>VFP 8.
>
>Client has a report with two memo fields, one placed vertically under
>the other, in a page footer.
>
>Page Footer "Constant Band Height" is unchecked.
>
>Top memo is "Fix relative to top of band" and "Stretch with overflow"
>
>Bottom memo is "Float" and "Stretch with overflow"
>
>When the second is located under the first, vertically, the last line
>of the second memo is cut off. When moved so each take up half the
>width, the second memo starts at the second line of the first, and is
>not cut off. Adding a CHR(13)+CHR(10) to the second memo has no
>effect.
>
>Simple code to reproduce:
>
>CREATE TABLE testtext (mtext M)
>INSERT INTO testtext VALUES ("Four score and seven years ago, our
>fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation"+;
>", conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men
>are created equal.")
>CREATE REPORT testtext
>
>Place the two memos (both referring to mtext) in the footer and play
>around with it. Ideas welcomed.
>
>--
>Ted Roche
>Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
>
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