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Jan Weingärtner

Posted: 03/15/2002 22:32:52

Hi.

The Header-and-Footer topic seems to be interesting for many programmers -

for me too.

(For me this is more important than bullets and numbering).

Features like page number automation in headers/footers would be IMHO not

really helpfull.

At the moment we are *drawing* headers and footers by using the

OnPagePrepaint event and TCanvas functions. It's a difficult work to

calculate the correct zoom values for text an pictures (it's fun, but it

takes a lot of time) and the appearance often is not 100% like the other

RichView text. The advantage is, the flexibility. We can print out what ever

we want.

The new header/footer feature (in my dreams) consists of two parts:

1)

A rectangle set (like a table with 1 column and 3 rows)

- header rectangle

- rich view area (already defined by the margin values)

- footer rectangle

2)

2 new events (header/footer)

OnGetHeader(TCustomRichView* headerRV, int pageNo)

{

    RV->AddText( "Page " + IntToStr(pageNo), ...);     ///... or whatever

}

(And it is nevertheless possible to use the OnPagePrepaint event.)

Best regards,

Jan