Shading OVER vertical lines should be fine as long as the shading box/area is made transparent and I haven't had any problems with it, Having said that I rarely want to shade over vertical dividers as the dividers normally indicate data separation per se.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Yoder Sent: 23 April 2014 16:27 To: Foxpro forum Subject: Re: Help with report writer Send to back took care of the data being visible over the shading but my vertical lines still disappear behind it. I tried bringing them to the front but saw no change. Is this perhaps behavior by design? Thanks - Joe On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Tracy Pearson <[email protected]>wrote: > Joe Yoder wrote on 2014-04-23: > > I'm finally wrapping up this report and have just added the shading > > in > the > > form of a rectangle that prints when the hour matches what I have > > in an inlist function. The rectangles print where and when they > > are supposed > to > > but they overwrite the data underneath. I thought setting the > > backstyle > of > > the rectangle to transparent would solve the problem but no luck. > > What > am > > I missing? > > > > My report detail line is too busy. It has 24 fields, 24 separator > lines, > > and now a rectangle over the entire width. It has been a real > > challenge > to > > select the individual elements as I tweak the exact placement. > > Since > the > > rectangle is on top things will be even worse! Is there a way to > > have > the > > screen zoom so it is easier to select individual elements? > > Something > else? > > > > Thanks so much, > > > > Joe > > > > Joe, > > Select the shading rectangle, then use the menu "Format" -> "Send to Back". > This should 1) fix your shading problem 2) make it easier to work with > the controls on top. > > Tracy Pearson > PowerChurch Software > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
