[reportlab-users] KeepInFrame.drawOn() working?

Dinu Gherman gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de
Thu Oct 5 10:16:28 EDT 2006


Robin Becker:

> The keepinframe thing is variable sized up to the maximum specified in 
> the creation call, but nothing tells it to draw at a particular place 
> relative to the external rectangle.
>
> When the frame adds, the KeepInFrame is added top down in the frame at 
> the next available space. I originally wanted the make the KeepInFrame 
> a special sort of frame, but Andy didn't like the idea so it became a 
> sort of squashable container flowable.

I think I understand that better now. Basically I had drawn
the flowable before wrapping it. If you do it the other way
round all KeepInFrame modes work as expected.

Thanks,

Dinu



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