Assign value to text object ?

[Frank336]

Hi, im using vb6, RDC(cr8.5), access 2000.

Ive got a dynamic report and I need to display a text greater than 255 characters. The text is the criteria choose by the user for the report. I pass the text by parameter. Since you cant pass a string greater than 255, I cut it into smaller parts (the text can be over 2000 characters).

My problem appear when I display the parameters in the page header. If I put every parameter field one under the other to simulate a string and I've only got a string of 10 characters there will be a big white space before the actual data of the report start.

Ive try using "underlay following section" of the page header but then, I dont know why, the data (the detail section) are display starting for the top of the page and over my page header...

Can I assign data to a text object ?

Anyone can help ?

Thanks,
Frank

 

[synapsevampire]

Instead of:

If I put every parameter field one under the other to simulate a string

Place them all into a text box, they will display as a single string, just be sure to select Can Grow.

Or you might create separate page headers for each parameter and format each to suppress if blank to eliminate wasted space.

-k

http://www.informeddatadecisions.com

kai@informeddatadecisions.com

 

[Frank336]

A textbox ? What is that ? A text object ? And I can assign value to the textbox (= parameter1 & parameter2...) ?

 

[synapsevampire]

Just drop the parm fields into a single text field (object).

Turm on th can grow.

-k

http://www.informeddatadecisions.com

kai@informeddatadecisions.com