Re: Control items that exceed the height limit...

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Luke

Posted: 11/22/2002 22:01:59

I ran a test with the Chart Demo. It looks like they do not respect the new

size. I read somewhere you state that it is possible to print two RichViews

continuously. Maybe I should look into this. If I start a new RichView

after every dynamically sized Item, do you think this would be the best method?

Thanks

>Hey Sergey,

> If I have a different print size for an item being shown, is there a method

>to pass back the new height or bottom of the custom print drawing to keep

>following items or text in sync? I suspect that every item that follows

>is still expecting the item to take up the space in the view. I have not

>gotten this far to test. I just thought I would ask.. Thanks

>"Sergey Tkachenko" <[email protected]> wrote:

>>It's not a trivial task.

>>Of course, drawing control with 40K rows into bitmap is impossible.

>>You can create a new RichView item class representing this control, and

>>override printing method in it.

>>Example is in Demos\Addins\ChartItem.

>>This example shows how to print a control directly on the printer canvas.

>>But this does not solve the problem, because there is one more important

>>issue - how the image of this control will be separated between pages.

>>There are two possible solutions:

>>- setting rvepMinHeightOnPage to non-zero value; the control will be printed

>>on several pages, but it can be split between pages in arbitrary place

>(in

>>the middle of text line in cell, for example);

>>- controlling separation between pages yourself; this process is not

>>documented and is not very easy to learn.

>>Did you try to use native RichView tables for your reports?