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drawing excel like grids on access reports
Hi All,
I want to draw excel like grids on my access reports. The line should start from the top of each label in the page footer to the bottom of the corresponding text box in the page footer.(For each text box in the detail section, there's one unbound text box in the page footer to display totals). I don't know how to do this. can anyone please help me? -- from chanakya Baruva |
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drawing excel like grids on access reports
Can't you use rectangle or line controls in your various sections? These
should work unless your sections are set to Can Grow. If this is the case, you may need to use the Line method in the report's On Print events to draw the lines. -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "Access infant" wrote: Hi All, I want to draw excel like grids on my access reports. The line should start from the top of each label in the page footer to the bottom of the corresponding text box in the page footer.(For each text box in the detail section, there's one unbound text box in the page footer to display totals). I don't know how to do this. can anyone please help me? -- from chanakya Baruva |
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drawing excel like grids on access reports
I have tried what you told but it looks quite awkward when there's different
groupheaders in between on a page. So, I will choose to use the code to draw lines across different groups using line method if only i can get help from you -- from chanakya Baruva " |
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drawing excel like grids on access reports
Any help from you regarding my comments on Can Grow? I generally set the tag
property of controls that I want to add borders. I can then loop through the controls in a section and use the line method to draw vertical or horizontal lines using the Left, Top, Width, and Height of the appropriate controls as starting and ending points of the lines. -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP "Access infant" wrote in message ... I have tried what you told but it looks quite awkward when there's different groupheaders in between on a page. So, I will choose to use the code to draw lines across different groups using line method if only i can get help from you -- from chanakya Baruva " |
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drawing excel like grids on access reports
Actually i have added some unbound controls in the different group footers
and the report and page footers also. so, in order to make sure that the line would be straight, can i take the left of a control in the detail section only and store it in a module level variable and use the same value in all sections 'on print' event. so that the line could be straight ? If you don't feel that i am expecting too much of you, could you please give me code for one section which i can use with changes (if needed) for other sections also.Or at least direct me to a link where i can get some sample code. -- from chanakya Baruva |
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drawing excel like grids on access reports
I'm not exactly sure how you have these controls setup. But again, I like to
put something in the tag property that identifies if a control should have lines on its left, top, right, or bottom. Consider entering any combination of LTRB for these sides into the tag. Then you might have code in the On Format event of a section like: Dim ctl as Control dim strTag as String For Each ctl in Me.Controls strTag = ctl.Tag & "" If Instr(strTag,"L") Then 'left Me.Line (ctl.Left, clt.Top)-Step (0,clt.Height) End If If Instr(strTag,"T") Then 'top Me.Line (ctl.Left, clt.Top)-Step (clt.Width,0) End If 'duplicate similar code for left and bottom 'the line method uses the first (x,y) as the x and y position in the section ' the Step argument is used to set the (x,y) to relative to the first (x,y) Next -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP "Access infant" wrote in message news Actually i have added some unbound controls in the different group footers and the report and page footers also. so, in order to make sure that the line would be straight, can i take the left of a control in the detail section only and store it in a module level variable and use the same value in all sections 'on print' event. so that the line could be straight ? If you don't feel that i am expecting too much of you, could you please give me code for one section which i can use with changes (if needed) for other sections also.Or at least direct me to a link where i can get some sample code. -- from chanakya Baruva |
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drawing excel like grids on access reports
Thanks a lot for the code. But i have been saying that i have controls in the
group headers and footers for each control in the detail section. for example if i have three controls x,y,z i have unbound controls in the page footer, report footer,other groupfooter to show the totals at various level for each control viz. x,y,z. So, if i follow your code and suppose control X changes in size(because of the can grow property), i cannot see the same change in the unbound controls displaying total for x. So, there is no guarantee that the lines look like grids because they do not fall on a straight line. To work this around, can i store the Left property of each control in the detail section in a module level variable and use the same wherever i want to use ctl.Left. Any how i want to draw only vertical lines. Please suggest me if it is possible? Or to follow your code as it is, probably i need another piece of code to make sure that the ctl in the detail section and the corresponding ctls in the different sections have same left property and width property. If you think this is better, could you tell me how to ensure this -- from chanakya Baruva |
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drawing excel like grids on access reports
I would expect your controls in the different secitons to have the same left
and width. Is there any reason why they couldn't? I have asked twice before about the Can Grow and you have finally mentioned something about this. The grown Height of a control can only be determined in the On Print event (not the On Format). You don't need module level variables since your code can reference the properties of any control from any section of the report. -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "Access infant" wrote: Thanks a lot for the code. But i have been saying that i have controls in the group headers and footers for each control in the detail section. for example if i have three controls x,y,z i have unbound controls in the page footer, report footer,other groupfooter to show the totals at various level for each control viz. x,y,z. So, if i follow your code and suppose control X changes in size(because of the can grow property), i cannot see the same change in the unbound controls displaying total for x. So, there is no guarantee that the lines look like grids because they do not fall on a straight line. To work this around, can i store the Left property of each control in the detail section in a module level variable and use the same wherever i want to use ctl.Left. Any how i want to draw only vertical lines. Please suggest me if it is possible? Or to follow your code as it is, probably i need another piece of code to make sure that the ctl in the detail section and the corresponding ctls in the different sections have same left property and width property. If you think this is better, could you tell me how to ensure this -- from chanakya Baruva |
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drawing excel like grids on access reports
Thank you very much. I have so far thought that can grow property changes the
width of a control. NOw i am clear about it. At first i thought that code you gave in Me.controls refers to only the controls in the section for which we are writing the code. But you have enlightened me that using the tag property for the controls in the detail section, i could make sure that lines in every section would be drawn as per the left and other properties of the controls in the detail section only. Thanks a lot and lot for your help. It helped me a lot. -- from chanakya Baruva |
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