card rect problem

[Jim Ault]

On 10/25/06 9:12 PM, "Peter Brigham" <pmbrig at comcast.net> wrote:

> I have a problem that's driving me crazy. I'm working on OSX 10.4 on
> an iBook G4 with Dreamcard 2.6.1, and I run this particular stack
> system under the IDE exclusively. It's a stack for printing clinical
> notes, but it has lots of bells & whistles. I have a substack for
...
> Does it have to do with stuff I don't understand about setting the
> rect of a stack vs the rect of a window? I sure don't seem to get
> something important about the window size vs the card size. What
> could be making the card rect be different from the window rect? And
> why would this be intermittent? I'm getting pretty frantic, since as
> it stands I can't even print my clinical notes properly now and it's
> seriously interfering with me managing my practice....

I feel your frustration.

My quick answer would be to do:
Build a subStack that is the print page size, include one or more fields
sized and formatted correctly, copy the original text to the correct field,
hide the others, then print without having to resize any fields or cards or
stacks (except the header reveal).

It could be that at some point you used the Rev geometry manager for some
objects and it remembers some ghost info.

If you need a better answer from me, you should consider sending me a sample
stack(s) without private information and I will try it on my Mac.  My
printing/formatting experience is limited, but it sounds like you need
something very quickly.  I can carve out a bit of time to do this.

I have been xTalking since HCard 1.0

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 10/25/06 9:12 PM, "Peter Brigham" <pmbrig at comcast.net> wrote:

> I have a problem that's driving me crazy. I'm working on OSX 10.4 on
> an iBook G4 with Dreamcard 2.6.1, and I run this particular stack
> system under the IDE exclusively. It's a stack for printing clinical
> notes, but it has lots of bells & whistles. I have a substack for
> printing a formatted letter, with some header fields and a main text
> field. The user opens the substack with a button, the main field is
> loaded with the date, addressee, etc, and is set to scrolling style,
> then the user types the letter, then clicks a print button to print
> the letter (the letter content gets saved as a custom property of the
> originating card). A set of handlers then resets the style of the
> field to opaque and expands it vertically along with the stack window
> to page-size, prints the first page with the headers, then expands
> the text field to full page size (covering the headers), and scrolls
> the text repeatedly by the proper amount to print the subsequent pages.
> 
> I kept having problems with the print output -- the text field was
> apparently not expanding to full page size and only the top 25 lines
> were being printed. I traced the problem down to this: after I expand
> the stack rect to full page size and expand the text field to fit the
> new window size, the height of the stack is 830 as it should be but
> the height of the card is 676, thus cutting off the lower part of the
> field from printing when I print the card. The weird thing is that it
> happens some of the time but not all the time. At one point I thought
> I could get it to work properly by setting a breakpoint -- every time
> I ran it without interrupting the script it failed, and every time I
> stopped it with a breakpoint to try to debug it by stepping through
> the script it worked fine. Then it stopped working even with the
> breakpoint. I put in a "hard" breakpoint --
> 
> if cardHeight <> stackHeight then
>    breakpoint
> end if
> 
> in the script right after where I reset the size of the window and
> the field, and it gets triggered! I can't figure out what could make
> the card height different from the stack height. I can't set the
> height of the card to fix it. Now it seems to work occasionally but
> mostly not, with no pattern I can see.
> 
> Does it have to do with stuff I don't understand about setting the
> rect of a stack vs the rect of a window? I sure don't seem to get
> something important about the window size vs the card size. What
> could be making the card rect be different from the window rect? And
> why would this be intermittent? I'm getting pretty frantic, since as
> it stands I can't even print my clinical notes properly now and it's
> seriously interfering with me managing my practice....
> 
> -- Peter Brigham
> 
> Peter M. Brigham, MD
> pmbrig at comcast.net
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig/
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