And to think about it farther, it makes perfect sense that the page style would be the first evaluated – it establishes the page onto which everthing else is written. It has to be first. If you tried to do it last, how would you get it to go behind everything else? Wouldn’t work.
The deceptive thing is that the page style band is at the bottom of the designer rather than the top. It leads one to think that it gets processed last, given our “top-down” reading of the page. Emmitt Dove Manager, Converting Applications Development Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [email protected] (203) 214-5683 m (203) 643-8022 o (203) 643-8086 f [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emmitt Dove Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:06 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: How to make page-style label visible / invisible Larry, In one of my previous messages on the topic I noted that the page style band appears to be the very first one evaluated, so if you want to change something displayed on it, you would have to be able to code your logic that way. Emmitt Dove Manager, Converting Applications Development Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [email protected] (203) 214-5683 m (203) 643-8022 o (203) 643-8086 f [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:12 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: How to make page-style label visible / invisible << The BEFORE GENERATE eep will evaluate variables in the current band and allow you to manipulate things before they are “committed to the page.” The AFTER GENERATE eep does not permit you to impact the display of the current band. AFTER GENERATE would be useful for example in conditionally accumulating totals. >> Thanks for the update, Emmitt. I'm able to affect the contents of any particular band _except_ page style by putting code in the ON BEFORE GENERATE EEP of that band (or any band that precedes it in rendering order). But I still can't seem to find the right place to put code to affect the contents of the Page Style band relating to the current set of data. If i change something on the page style band, it affects the NEXT page. From this I surmise that page style is evaluated before anything else. I could use some "look ahead" code to try to figure out what the critical values will be on the next page of the report and update the page style that way, but I think it would be unmaintainable. I did do something like this in the past but looking it up, I see that I placed the watermark in a band footer in that case, rather than the page style band. -- Larry
