Rave Reports Visual Designer

Drawing Tab components

The "Drawing" tab controls the visibility of the Drawing components toolbar (shown below).

Once the Drawing components toolbar is active, you can select one of the shape types ( line, horizontal line, vertical line, rectangle, square, ellipse, circle ) and drop a box on the page layout that will contain that shape style.

If the shape is selected you will see the property window for that shape and you can change the properties to the settings desired if the defaults are not correct. As you can see with the property window there are many settings. The names of these properties have been created in an attempt to convey their purpose. Remember that the Reference section in this manual describes each of these properties. The property window shown below is for the Rectangle shape. We will do a quick tour of the different drawing shape properties.

When you select an item, you will get a set of pips around that item. In some respects these pips behave in a normal manner. However, the pips also will give you some additional information about the selected item(s). If the pips are GREEN then you have selected a single item and you can "drag" any of the pips to resize that component. However; if you select more than one item, then the pips will become GRAY and you can move them as a group but can not resize them. If you notice that the pips are RED, then that item is mirrored. You can change the starting location of a mirrored item (left and top properties), but you can not resize a mirrored item. So GREEN pips mean a normal single items has been selected and dragging the different pips is allowed. GRAY or RED pips indicate that the selected item(s) have a restricted behavior.

See Also:

Circle, Ellipse, HLine, Line, Rectangle, Square, VLine

Alignment, Bar Code, Colors, Components, Designer, Fills, Fonts, Lines, Project, Report, Standard, Toolbars, Zoom