WB12 Page Template footer

I have a page template that I want to add a footer which is a single HTML Control. However, my pages vary in length and so any position I select is not correct for some pages. Is there a way to cause the the HTML control to position itself after the last control on the page?

Thanks,

Hi Jeff,

I'm not sure how this will work but will get you close to what you want

Can you make the footer control moveable but not with the mouse.

In the initialization code of the form set the Y property of the footer equal to the y property of the last control + height of the last control

HTH
Glenn Rathke

I just tried what I suggested:

CELL_FOOTER..Y = BTN_Button1..Y + BTN_Button1..Height

and if I'm understanding you correctly, it does what you're asking for.


I expanded a little further and came up with this. You don't need to know which control is last, helpful when you allow the user to move the controls around:

Y is int
i is int = 1
ResControl is string
ResControl = EnumControl(MyPage, i)
WHILE NoSpace(ResControl) <> ""
IF ResControl <> "CELL_FOOTER" THEN
IF {ResControl}..Y + {ResControl}..Height > Y THEN
Y = {ResControl}..Y + {ResControl}..Height
END
END
i++
ResControl = EnumControl(MyPage, i)
END

CELL_FOOTER..Y = Y + 10 // position the header 10 below the last control


HTH
Glenn Rathke



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/18/2008 02:33AM by Glenn Rathke.

Thanks Glenn, I think that will work fine.

Jeff

Easy...
Create a PageHeader template, a PageBody template (optional) and a PageFooter template. These are three different templates. Now assign the three templates to your page and override (right click) the size and position of the main cells that are inheritted from the body template and the footer template.Works fine!

Cheers,

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the suggestion. That works just fine.

I also created a control template and put that at the bottom of each page which worked also.

Jeff