How best to insert dynamic data into canned text DBMemo fields

rbuser

I have canned text dbmemo fields that I have created and transferred onto a
standard report format.

Now my users have come back requesting the ability to insert dates, dollar
amounts, etc into these "canned" text memos. I have tried overlaying text
fields on top of the memos in the report but it looks skewed (out of
alignment) when viewed at some workstations.

Is there a way to insert dynamic strings into a memo or will I have to take
a more brute force method to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

Bill Lawler
Elite Brokerage Services, Inc.

digitalmetaphors

If you would like to change the design time behavior of a component in the
designer, you'll need to change the designer source.

You may want to use a non-data aware memo and use its OnPrint event to
assign text to its Lines.Text property. You can access the datapipeline to
get the current field value for your memo data. You're gonna want to parse
the text in order to insert the new text in the correct position.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors