Changing fonts during runtime - Crystal Reports

[rahavtom]

Hello.

 

I use visual basic .net 2003 and Crystal Reports for creating win-reports.

My question is if there is any possibility to set font properties (type, color and size) of a text control or data field during runtime.

To be more accurate, I know I can set these settings by formula (next to each property in design time), but I would like to let the user choose what font settings he would like to use. I allow the user to set there properties in my application and save it to a database (MDB), but I don't find the way to recall these settings and affect the fonts in the report during runtime.

 

Any help will be usefull.

Tom Rahav.

[pendragon]

To change a text object you can do the following

 

private void CrystalReportViewer1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) 
{ 
   crReportDocument = new OpenItem(); 

   TextObject textObject; 
   textObject = crReportDocument.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects["txtRepDate"] as TextObject; 
    
  // You now have the text objects properties available to change i.e.
     
     textObject.Font  = ...

   CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = crReportDocument; 
} 

 

I believe for a data field it is FieldObject