align bottom at runtime

[latwv]

I am using the crystal report developer 8.5 in Visual Basic 6. I have one field that can grow and one that cannot. I want to be able to align their bottoms at runtime after the first field has grown so they would look like this


Field
Title 1 Title2
-------- --------


Thanks,
Lori

 

[Ngolem]

I am a bit confused is:

Field
Title1

a single field or a "Can Grow" Field ontop of Title1

if it is a single field then you cannot align the bottoms of the Title1 & Title 2

if Field is different from Title1

Place Field in one section and Title 1 and Title2 in a subsection below it then Field affect both titles equally

If this is a column heading...one with 2 line and another with a single line...I ALWAYS break the 2 line header into 2 separate fields and stack them....then alignment problems disappear

 

[latwv]

The Field Title1 are one field. It is a field from the database. It can be 2 lines to 6 lines high. I was hoping for a way to do the alignment at run time after the height had been calculated.

Thanks anyway,
Lori

 

[Ngolem]

No....you cannot do that to the best of my knownledge. Crystal doesn't do that kinda pre-calculation for you.

If I had this problem and it absolutely had to be done I guess I would try this messy approach.

determine the number of characters that you want each line to have.

let us say for example we have a max of six lines with 10 characters/line

then the section where these fields belong would have 6 subsections

I would break the Field Title1 string into 10 character segments assigning them to 6 formulas

I would arrange them like this


-------------------------------------
FT1(1) subsection (a)
--------------------------------------
FT1(2) subsection (b)
--------------------------------------
FT1(3) subsection (c)
--------------------------------------
FT1(4) subsection (d)
--------------------------------------
FT1(5) subsection (e)
--------------------------------------
FT1(6) Title2 subsection (f)
--------------------------------------

FT1 (these could be parts of an array) formlas would all be initialized to "" and filled from the bottom up

eg: if Field Title1 was the string:
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

then FT1(6) would = "qrstuvwxyz"
FT1(5) would = "ghijklmnop"
FT1(4) would = "abcdef"

the others would be left null

in the section expert, check the box that says "Suppress blank section"

now when printed...the bottoms will be aligned

this is the only way I can think of to solve your problem

Hope this helps...Jim