[reportlab-users] re: Crashing when table goes over a page

Garth Kidd reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:40:10 +1000


> Garth and others. I have a fix for the problem you reported.
> At some time  in the past Aaron turned off hard error 
> trapping in the frame _add method.  Now we control that using 
> rl_config.allowTableBoundsErrors. I think he  assumed that we 
> would fail in the split method if the table was too wide. 

Fantastic fix, Robin! Just what the doctor ordered. And you're right, I've
ended up with a table that's too wide. Better that than a hang, though! 

Regards,
Garth.