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Making a part of a string invisible [message #427744] Sat, 24 October 2009 16:37 Go to next message
sindikalac
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I've had some problems with my reports when printing. Some of the text was cut out (last words in the last sentence on the left side of the paper) although when I preview it on the screen it's all there, but this was just introduction for my question.

I created a function where I have a statement like this:

:cp_1:=first_part||second_part;


cp_1 is placeholder for a string, and I put that on layout of the report &<cp_1>. I realized that I will resolve my problem, if I add extra text to my string, but I need to visually hide it (second_part). That is just a way how to trick my printer not to cut out some of my text.

I don't know how to hide second_part of the above string. I tried to change color of it into white, but I don't see how.

Do you have any idea?
Re: Making a part of a string invisible [message #427784 is a reply to message #427744] Sun, 25 October 2009 09:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Littlefoot
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Make the "second string" all blanks:
:cp_1 := 'this is the first string' || '                  ';

Re: Making a part of a string invisible [message #428011 is a reply to message #427784] Mon, 26 October 2009 16:06 Go to previous message
sindikalac
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I tried that. It didn't work. It just worked when I added for example: ||'1111111'. But I wanted to hide this array of characters.
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