which api ?

[slatet]

We've had someone suggest that a windows API call can handle our problem. We have found the solution to this problem both for free and paying for a 3rd party tool but it is a hassle to get anything installed and therefore cannot get it installed by our deadline of Oct 1. So if anyone can lead us in the right direction, we would appreciate it.

We have an Access 2000 database. We have a report in which we have to flip one field and display it upside down. It has been suggested GetWindowRect might handle this?

Thanks ahead of time.

 

[Mike Gagnon]

AS far as I can see if you say "We have a report in which we have to flip one field and display it upside down", I would say no, GetWindowRect is not the right API. GetWindowRect will "Copies the dimensions of the bounding rectangle of the CWnd object to the structure pointed to by lpRect.".
It sounds like you need to flip a field value to appear upside-down on a report. I'm not too familiar with Access, but does Access have such feature as putting the value of the field into a label and use somekind of "rotating" text feature.
On the otherhand if you wanted to flip a portion of a Windows Form in Access or other platform, GetWindowRect woudl get you started by allow you to determine which portion of the form you need to flip, by getting the bounderies of the rectangle. But that is only the start and it does not sound like that is what you need.



Mike Gagnon

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[jm314]

Maybe you could use excel to produce the final report with the flipped value. Cell contents can be rotated from -90 to +90 degrees. That would mean doing something like rotating everything +90 and the field you want flipped would be rotated -90. It wouldn't be much use on screen, but could be printed correctly.