Hi,

My client has a "payments" report that prints out yearly payments. They would like a blank line printed every 5 rows to make it easier to read. In the past pre-VFP9 I had written the routine to actually figure out how many detail lines would be on a page and then I would insert blank rows in the cursor. I did it this way because they did not want blank lines on the top of any pages and they wanted extra blank lines around certain "text" rows (e.g. "Starting payments of $2,000.00 a month...".

All of the above code was in the code that created the cursor. Under VFP9, I no longer seem to be able to reliably tell how many lines are going to print in the detail section of a report so I really don't know where I "am" on the page as it outputs. So I have been thinking of having the report writer insert the space. Options are:

1) insert a blank object above and below the "real" detail object and use some hook to the Print When to suppress the blanks when I don't want them; first attempt caused the detail band to grow even though I had "delete if blank" turned on for these blank objects

Has anyone else tried to do this? Looking for ideas before I burn up a lot of time on it.

Thanks,

Albert Gostick