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Author PB 8.0 grid Datawindow and 3D Raised/Lowered borders
Peter V.

2004-10-27, 3:58 pm

Hello!

I am using PB 8.0 to create a grid report. The Heading band has
text items that are all set for a 3D Raised border (6). The coulmns
are all 3D lowered (5).

The problem is that there is either a white line in between some of
the heading items, or a black line inbetween them. It is not
consistent in how these differnt lines appear inbetween the headings.

It seems trivial to worry about this, but unfortunately from a UI
point of view it does not look good, and my supervisor has pointed it
out to me. I have compared this particular report with other exisitng
reports that have the same border types described above and they all
have a white line inbetween each one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Peter Vasseur
Dave Perry

2004-10-28, 4:00 pm

Peter,

I don't have an answer to your particular question, but it's always
helpful to examine the source of the datawindow/report in question and
compare the differences to the "good" report.


best of luck
-Dave Perry

dm_v_2000@yahoo.com (Peter V.) wrote in message news:<3f9c05b0.0410271035.7219ba71@posting.google.com>...
> Hello!
>
> I am using PB 8.0 to create a grid report. The Heading band has
> text items that are all set for a 3D Raised border (6). The coulmns
> are all 3D lowered (5).
>
> The problem is that there is either a white line in between some of
> the heading items, or a black line inbetween them. It is not
> consistent in how these differnt lines appear inbetween the headings.
>
> It seems trivial to worry about this, but unfortunately from a UI
> point of view it does not look good, and my supervisor has pointed it
> out to me. I have compared this particular report with other exisitng
> reports that have the same border types described above and they all
> have a white line inbetween each one.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Vasseur

Peter V.

2004-10-28, 4:00 pm

Hello,

I figured out what was wrong. Actually it was another developer on
my team who told me what to do :-)

To fix the problem I described yesterday, the 3D raised Coulmn text
headings needed to have their Bring to Front / Send to Back properties
adjusted manually. This needs to be done after any new coulmns with
headers are inserted into a datawindow grid with 3D raised and lowered
objects.


Peter


dm_v_2000@yahoo.com (Peter V.) wrote in message news:<3f9c05b0.0410271035.7219ba71@posting.google.com>...
> Hello!
>
> I am using PB 8.0 to create a grid report. The Heading band has
> text items that are all set for a 3D Raised border (6). The coulmns
> are all 3D lowered (5).
>
> The problem is that there is either a white line in between some of
> the heading items, or a black line inbetween them. It is not
> consistent in how these differnt lines appear inbetween the headings.
>
> It seems trivial to worry about this, but unfortunately from a UI
> point of view it does not look good, and my supervisor has pointed it
> out to me. I have compared this particular report with other exisitng
> reports that have the same border types described above and they all
> have a white line inbetween each one.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Vasseur

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