Text Field Size

[bakidost]

Hi,

I want to size the text fields according to its content. When I set Auto Width = true, this property is satisfied but, the text field near this text field does not appear properly. So, what I want is to write my content into the text field in more than one line. Text field has a property named "Max Number of Lines". I think this property will serve for my purpose. But I couldn't make it work. Could you please help me?

Thanks

[Guest]

For two text field you may set a Dock = Left, and set AutoWidth = True, than second text field will shift to left side of the first text field.
If you want to expand text field which has multiple lines you must set property "Can Grow" in True.
"Max Number of Lines" is a property which limit count of text field lines, for example, if a text field has 5 lines, and "Max Number of Lines" = 3, then display 3 lines in text field.

Thank you.

[Guest]

For two text field you may set a Dock = Left, and set AutoWidth = True, than second text field will shift to left side of the first text field.
If you want to expand text field which has multiple lines you must set property "Can Grow" in True.
"Max Number of Lines" is a property which limit count of text field lines(while Can Grow = True), for example, if a text field has 5 lines, and "Max Number of Lines" = 3, then 3 lines in text field is displayed.

Thank you.

[bakidost]

Thanks for your quick reply.

"Max number of lines" property works for the texts that is written manually. But my main problem occurs while retrieving data from database. I put the database fields into the text fields, i.e. {Customer.Address}. This time, "Max number of lines" & "Can Grow = true" property does not work. You can see an example of this situation in StimulReport.Net Demo, Basic Reports- Simple List part. In Simple List report, the second text field is {Customer.Address} and some entries does not fit into the field. Is there a solution to this problem? And is there a simple way of creating table structures(no fitting problems:) ) other than exporting to excel?

Thanks..

[Vital]

Property WordWrap equal to true?

[bakidost]

Hi,

Property Word Wrap works. When I set it true, the text is fitted into the field no matter how long the text is. Here, I have an another problem. Let me explaın it wıth an example. I have 4 text fields and they hold {Student.name}, {Student.Surname}, {Student.Grade}, {Student.Age}. Student is a table in the database and has 5 entries.

Name Surname Grade Age

Kevser Sonmez A 22
Kezban Demirtas A 23
Okutan
Hilal Sem B 19
Ali Er C 20
Filiz Gonlubol A 23

Here, when we use odd coloring, there is no problem. The second line is all in same color. But, when I use borders for text fields, then in the second line, the border of the name field is smaller than the border of surname field. So, it does not look like a table. I hope I explained it clearly. Is there a solution for this?

By the way, my main aim is to create a table which has some columns, and each column is related to a field in a database table. And the text size is not a problem. Is there a table structure, or do you have a plan for creating tables in the reports in near future? We are very interested in this property, and plan to buy the program if this properties hold.

Thanks a lot.

[Edward]

Please set the GrowToHeight property of each StiText component placed on the DataBand in true. This property is available in the context menu of the StiText component and in the property editor as well. Via that property you be able to set the height of all text components on the DataBand to the same value and to do it for each DataBand rendered. The result will look as a table. This is working fine.

Also please set the Text.TextQuality=Typographic property of each text field of the table. Now we work on new Text Render which improves the precision of the WordWrap property. We will inform you in that topic when the new realization will be ready.

Thank you.

[Vital]

You can create table with help of bands, but at this moment we work on new component - table. It will be available soon.

Thank you.