[AccessD] Vertical line on report

Yep.  That worked!  Thank you.

Rocky
 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:45 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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
> Beach Access Software
> 858-259-4334
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