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It is necessary often to print a text whose size is not known when creating a report. For example, this can be a description of goods. In this case, the following tasks will need to be solved:
| • | calculate the height of the object, such that it encloses the whole text; |
| • | calculate the height of the band, such that it encloses the object with a variable amount of texts; |
| • | move or change the height of other objects, which are contained on the band, such that, they do not disturb the general design of the report. |
These tasks can be solved by using some object and band properties:
| • | "CanGrow" and "CanShrink" properties allow calculating the height of the object automatically; |
| • | "ShiftMode" property allows moving objects that are located under the objects that expand; |
| • | "GrowToBottom" property allows resizing an object to the bottom edge of the band; |
| • | "Anchor" and "Dock" properties allow controlling the size of objects depending on the size of the band. |
All these properties will be looked at below.
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