Column breaks in Printing a Report

PaulDGoldstein · February 22nd, 2013, 01:59 PM

I have an Access Report that I am trying to convert over to VB2010. The program actually creates 2 reports...one which is mainly graphics and a little text, I was able to convert cleanly into VB.
The second one is much more like a standard Access Report: Group breaks, and yes...it wraps to a 2nd Column on the page (like Word would).
I know that I could probably break the page up into two separate ParagraphInfo(s) one for the left column and one for the right...but is there a way of doing this in the actual definition of the ParagraphInfo object?
Thanks for your time in advance.
Paul Goldstein

Rod Stephens · February 23rd, 2013, 07:01 PM

Do you mean the ParagraphInfo class from this example:

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_print_long_text.html

Or from somewhere else?

The ParagraphInfo object in that example just holds information about text to be printed and doesn't include any logic for wrapping across columns. That would be a good addition to the example but it's not there now.

Sorry.

PaulDGoldstein · February 23rd, 2013, 11:22 PM

Hi Rod,
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm referring to the example in the book (that's how I knew how to generate a report in the first place). I downloaded the example and saw how the text (from the book) was inserted into the ParagraphInfo.
So...then...if I can't do it in ParagraphInfo (have a column break), is there another object that does this? Or, do I have to basically divide my page into two sides and then write some code to calculate what goes on the left (column), and then what goes on the right?
Thanks again for your reply.
Paul

Rod Stephens · February 24th, 2013, 06:17 PM

Take a look at this example:

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_p...ulticolumn.zip

It's probably not exactly the same as what's in the book so you may need to modify it slightly.

The basic idea is to make a list of RectangleF structs giving areas to print. Then for each of those, the code loops through the ParagraphInfo objects as before printing as much as will fit in the RectangleF.

It seems to work reasonably well.

PaulDGoldstein · February 25th, 2013, 12:12 PM

Hi Rod,
I figured that's what I'd have to do. I already have a lot of the layout from Access report, I'm just going to have to convert the concept of how much to print on the page over from the example and go with it.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Paul