Thanks for the reply.  You are correct - I wanted the memo to span multiple
detail lines rather than being recreated for each.  I'm using
PageForeground as you suggested and I believe it will work well, so long as
I can set short reports to allow for enough space.

As a side note, I'm having an issue with the height of the ReportBegin band
not being respected by other bands (so the content is written over).  I can
get around this issue by moving it to other bands.

Platform: Win
Python Version: 2.7.3 on win32
Dabo Version: 0.9.13
UI Version: 2.8.12.1 on wxMSW

Thanks,

Neil


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/23/13 4:29 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> > On 8/23/13 1:41 PM, Neil Flowers wrote:
> >> I'm working on a project with the report designer and I've run into a
> >> design issue.  The report in question will contain a ungrouped detail
> >> section that derives from a simple data set.  However, it also needs to
> >> have a large memo with pre-defined text horizontally adjacent to the
> detail
> >> lines on the right side.  If a picture of the report would be helpful I
> >> will be happy to provide one.
> >>
> >> To be clear, this memo would be of fixed size and, ideally, enough extra
> >> space would be made for the entire memo if the record count was small.
>  Is
> >> this possible with the report designer?
> >
> > Yes, it should be possible.
>
> Wait a second. It's possible for a fixed-size Memo to be placed to the
> right or left
> of other String objects. However, they both need to be inside the detail
> band. I
> think you want, upon re-reading:
>
> detail 1             Fixed
> detail 2              Memo
> detail 3             here...
>
> You could put the fixed memo on the PageForeground or PageBackground band,
> and then
> forbid your detail and other bands from printing in that area at all.
>
> But if I still have it wrong, let me know.
>
> Paul
>
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