REPORTS2.5: What happenned to the blank lines at the bottom of the Page????

Hi all:

        I converted a ReportWriter1.1 report to Reports2.5 and noticed the following problem:

        The original reportWriter specified a page height of 72 character cells. Each record is 6 character cells high, so there are 12 records per page. The original programmer made this 'fixed' in an ad-hoc sor t of way: He had a dummy SQL statement select six blank lines from a table which he then put in the layout with vertical sizing set to 'fixed':

select ' ' F1,

          ' ' F2,
         ' ' F3,
        ' ' F4,


       ' ' F5

The problem is that the converted report is throwing away the the last three lines (which are blank) at the bottom of the page, making the page 69 lines in length instead of 72. The report as run must be absolutely consistent in the height of the logical page. The original report handles this correctly. Reports2.5 does this correctly when I change the select statement to

select 'A ' F1,

          ' B' F2,
         ' C' F3,
        ' D' F4,


       ' E' F5

Is there some reports2.5 property that says throw away blank lines at the end of a page? No amount of tinkering with the vertical sizing properties of the frames on this report seems to have helped.

Thanks,

George Received on Thu Sep 25 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST