Jasper Report help

[Yaddif Medina]

Hi,

I have a report that have different font types at the "field name" (First Name, Last Name, etc) and "field value" (Smith, Fred, etc) (then they have to be separated). The problem is that when the field value exceeds its size, the field value below will take the new position but the field name keep in its position. A picture is more explanatory:

 
         REPORT TITLE
 
First Name:  Smith
Last  Name:  Fred

If the field of Smith has (ie) 100 characters it has to be shown in 2 lines ... then "Fred" it's going to be print at the 3th line, but "Last Name" will remain in its place ... and I need that it pass to the third line too. The result should be lie this:

 
         REPORT TITLE
 
First Name:  Smith jsdfjd fksdh fjhd fjhdkf dsjfksdj
             dksdfkjdslkjflksjdf
Last  Name:  Fred

but, I get:

 
         REPORT TITLE
 
First Name:  Smith jsdfjd fksdh fjhd fjhdkf dsjfksdj
Last  Name:  dksdfkjdslkjflksjdf
             Fred

Can you help me?.
Thanks in advance.

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[ October 06, 2005: Message edited by: Joel McNary ]

[Joel McNary]

What you need to do is add a line that stretches all the way across the page, and have it between your first and last name fields. Make sure that the line has a pen width of none (so it will be invisible).

So your report will look like this (in pseudo-code!)

<REPORT TITLE>

<First Name Static Text><First Name Data>
<Line x = 0, width = page width; pen = none; Position Type = Float>
<Last Name Static Text; Position Type = Float><Last Name Data; Position Type = Float>

The overflow from the first name data will push the position of the invisible line down, which will push the position of both the last name static text and last name data fields down, resulting in your desired output.

And I'm moving this to our "Other Open Source Projects" forum, where it is more appropriate.

[Yaddif Medina]

Hi Joel,

Great Idea, i'm going to test it.

Thanks for your help.