Brake in a Memo

rbuser

Is there any easy way to make a pagebrake depending on a line in a memo?

If a memo is long and holds a lotr aof sentences, then it would be good, to
tell the report engine, to brake after an end of a complete sentence. MEans
if the follwing Chars are at the end of the line . ! ?

Actualy i can only brake with in a group xxx inches before end of the page.


chris

digitalmetaphors

This is not natively supported in the memo control nor the rich text
control. What I would do is build the memo contents on the BeforePrint event
of the detail band. This way you can use multiple memo controls in the
detail band. They would have to be created before the report executes so
that they participate in the report engine's caching footprint. Then set
their visibility basedon how many page break characters you find when you
preprocess the memo data before the band prints. The BeforePrint event of
the band is the best palce to set the visiblilty of the controls that are
going to print in the band. Then you can set the memo contents in each
memo's OnPrint event. To get a page break, try to set the
Detailband.OutOfSpace property to true when a memo is going to print. You'll
have to have boolean variable to make sure you only set this once for each
memo, as the OnPrint is going to fire once on the page it tries to print on
below the memo above it and then again on the next page after you set
OutOfSpace to true. The first memo to print shouldn't try ot force a page
break.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors