Re: ReportWriter and Wrap fields - useless!?????

From: Tommy Wareing <p0070621_at_oxford-brookes.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Sep 1993 08:27:27 -0500
Message-ID: <CD53yH.3Mr_at_uk.ac.brookes>


Janene Carey (janene_at_metz.une.edu.au) wrote:
> Using Oracle v.6 and ReportWriter 1.1..
 

> I want a field of 80 char to wrap to a second line. Should
> be easy? Set the field width to 40, and the alignment to
> Wrap? Yes, but then I get a nasty mess!
 

> As the Reference Manual says "Fields that are placed below
> a Wrap field in a text object will overwrite the corresponding
> line of the Wrap field." (p.6-17)
 

> Is this supposed to be some sort of feature?? Garbled output
> whenever you need to wrap a field that doesn't happen to be
> the last one on the report??
 

> How do other people get around this?

Make it the last field in the group, and don't try and place a field BELOW your wrapping field. eg: with 6 fields,

field1	field2	Wrap	field4
	field5	field6

field5 is fine, since you know field 2 occupies one line. But how many lines will Wrap occupy? If it's only one, then field6 is ok, but if it's more than one, it'll be overwritten by field6. and field4 needs (I think) to be in a separate group in order to line up properly.

> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Janene Carey, Computing Services, University of New England,
> Armidale, 2351, NSW, Australia. Email: janene_at_metz.une.edu.au
> Phone: +61 67 73 2287 Fax: +61 67 73 3272
> Any views expressed are mine own hard won ones
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