[AccessD] Vertical line on report

Hi Rocky:

I put the line drawing code in the Print event of the detail section.
 Drawing a vertical line with a length of Me.Height works there.

Doug

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:

> Dear List:
>
> I have a report with several text boxes in the detail section.  Each of the
> text boxes is 'Can Grow' so the height of several of the text boxes and of
> course,  the detail section varies.
>
> Now the client wants a vertical line between two of the text boxes so that
> it makes a solid line vertically down the report.
>
> I've done this before on detail sections that don't grow making the
> vertical
> line exactly the height of the detail section- no problem - looks like a
> solid line.
>
> But of course with the height varying (some text boxes go to two lines on
> some records, some to three) the line is always too short.
>
> I tried playing around with the .Height property and while I can find out
> the height of a Can Grow text box in the Print event, the height of the
> vertical line can't be changed at that point.  And the height of the detail
> section or text box in the Format event hasn't been changed yet from design
> view.
>
> Is there a workaround for this?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky Smolin
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