Re: How to print only current record through a button on form which calls the report.

Hi Frank, *,

Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany escribió:
> Hello "FamiliaFrazelle",
>
> > i've built a form in ooBase, with a button to *print* a report with the 
> > currently displayed *record*'s data.
> >
> > I got the code to build the macro that opens the report document from 
> > the forum. However, I still need the StarBasic source-code to specify 
> > the *record* to display. Has anyone tried this?   Is it possible?
>
> Unfortunately, there's no direct method to move to a certain record,
> defined by its field/content. The API currently only supports
> positioning by row number (which is useless when you only know you wanbt
> to position on "the record where field X has value Y"), and positioning
> by bookmarks, where a bookmark is a unique value for each row, but of
> completely unpredictable (and implementation-dependent) value.
>
> The only thing I can suggest right now is to retrieve the logical form,
> and move through it until the desired record is found.
>
> To prevent flickering, you should not do the search on the form itself,
> but on a clone: Use the form's method "createResultSet", which will
> create a new result set, which shares its data and its bookmarks with
> the form. Then, search the desired record in the clone, and move the
> form to the bookmark of the found record.
>
> Something like
>   resultSet = form.createResultSet()
>   // look through resultSet for the desired record
>   form.moveToBookmark( resultSet.getBookmark() )
>
>
> For a while now, there are plans for an API which would allow this in
> one step - something like "form.moveTo( <some_selected_column_values>
> )", but this is not concrete, yet.

If I understood well, they are talking about a REPORT, not a FORM.

I think they have a form, and they want to print a REPORT for the 
current record they see in the form.

Did I get it? :-(


Regards
Ariel



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