 | | From: | Erich Zippel | | Subject: | grid and form.print() | | Date: | Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:41:22 +0100 |
|
|
 | I have the following (in my case unwanted and as far as I can see
undocumented) behaviour.
When I have a multi-page form with a normal grid and a lot else on it the
form.print()
command prints the form as it is and as it is intended.
When my grid has anchor=container or anchor=left (even not filling the full
page as there are
other containers) I get a printout of all the records in the grid.
Though I noticed that behaviour already in 2.21 it looks as if it has
changed a bit.
I remember unpredictable (due to scaling problems) truncation on the right,
now I seem to get several pages with the rest to the right.
So is this a severe 'tomatos on the eyes' on my behalf or shouldn't it at
least either be well
documented or fixed.
BTW there is still a minor optical glitch: when using split images on
buttons and don't
prohibit printing the original douple image is printed.
I "me too'd" the issue on distortion.
Just in case; yes I know the report designer - or at least try hard - but my
users and I
like to have to option of printouts of forms for bug and usability
discussions and some
QM documentations. It also spares my building a report for very rare
printing jobs.
And yes I know how to work around by temporarily dis-anchoring.
But if once forgotten that one grid is anchored you are in for anasty
surprise with
your 1M record table on the big color printer next door.
Erich Zippel
|
|
| | From: | Judith Bai | | Subject: | Re: grid and form.print() | | Date: | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:22:45 -0500 |
|
|
| Erich Zippel Wrote:
>
> When my grid has anchor=container or anchor=left (even not filling the full
> page as there are
> other containers) I get a printout of all the records in the grid.
>
> Though I noticed that behaviour already in 2.21 it looks as if it has
> changed a bit.
>
> my users and I
> like to have to option of printouts of forms for bug and usability
> discussions and some
> QM documentations.
>
>
Erich,
The special behavior for anchored grid was unintended for form image printing. It was picked up from the older code and was already corrected (along other corrections). Please try again when you have a build newer than 1811.
Judith Bai
dBI
|
|
