[reportlab-users] How do I use Platypus in forms?

[Dick Kniep]

On Friday 02 January 2004 10:51, Shayan Raghavjee schreef:
> Hi
>
> I've been having trouble getting these to work. I've been able to get it
> working when drawing directly onto the canvas, but I'm getting errors
> when I try to render Platypus objects into a form structure.
>
> Basically I'm doing something like:
> def detailForm(doc):        #doc = Reportlab SimpleDocTemplate
>
>        doc.canv.beginform('sample')
>        tabledata = [[1,2,3,4,5,6],[6,5,4,3,2,1]]
>        table = Table(tabledata)
>        doc.build([table])
>        doc.canv.endForm()
>        return doc

I notice that you have the table in 3 dimensions instead of in 2. This will 
cause the problem. Try:
doc.build(table)

Furthermore, I never used beginform and endform, and I do not know what they 
are doing.

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D.J. Kniep
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Tel. 036-5215580

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