Still Ghost Hunting

[Rob Cozens]

Hi All:

Scenario (boiled down a little since last post):

* A stack contains a "report" [generic, not Rev Report Builder] 
subStack with a report layout.

* The mainStack contains logic to clone the report subStack and 
populate a data field on the card by setting its htmlText, copying & 
paginating that layout card until all lines of the report data are 
displayed.  The cloned stack is then printed and purged or saved.

Mystery:

When the report encompasses two pages, the text in the populated 
field of the first page is superimposed on the text on the second 
page.  This occurs regardless of which of the two pages is printed 
first.  (I have not tried printing more than two pages, as I've 
already gone through half a ream of paper trying different 
workarounds to the two-page problem.)

BTW, this leads to a second observation:

If one creates a "report" stack clone as outlined above, and scripts 
"print this stack", the first card printed is the last card created.

If one scripts:

	close stack "Report 122345"
	open stack "Report 122345"
	print stack "Report 122345",

the first card printed is still the last card created.

But scripting:

	close stack "Report 122345"
	go to card 1 of stack "Report 122345"
	print stack "Report 122345"

prints the cards in ordinal order.  What's with that?

I'm running out of ideas for workarounds; so any ideas or suggestions 
are welcomed.  A free copy of the biorhythm charting stack is 
available to anyone interested in trying to exorcize my ghost.

Please contact me privately if you are interested.
-- 

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)