[reportlab-users] getKeepWithNext attribute error

[Riaan Bekker]

Ok, think I found the problem here. I populate the self._flowables with a
list of FRAMES, and as far as I can see FRAMES are not flowables, they are
containers. So when I populated the list with PARAGRAPHS, then it created
the PDF document, although it was empty.

 

I am not sure how FRAMES and PARAGRAPHS fit together. How do I tell the
document that I have a BASEDOCTEMPLATE with 4 frames (3 columns at top, 1
body frame) and then how to I tell the PARAGRAPHS that it belongs to a
certain FRAME?

 

At the moment I did the following:

 

1.	Setup a class and derive from BaseDocTemplate.
2.	Setup a pageTemplate.
3.	Setup Frames
4.	Add frames to the pageTemplate
5.	Add the pageTemplate to the list of page templates
6.	create a flowable list of paragraphs
7.	use the build method and send the flowable (full of paragraphs)

 

The PDF is then still empty. How do I tell the paragraphs to go into certain
frames?

 

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From: reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com
[mailto:reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com] On Behalf Of Riaan Bekker
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:40 PM
To: reportlab-users at reportlab.com
Subject: [reportlab-users] getKeepWithNext attribute error

 

 

Hi All,

 

As soon as I try to build my report it complains about an attribute error on
the flowables. The flowables are all frames, and as far as I can see the
frames do support the KeepWithNext property. I am totally lost as to where
to start looking for the problem again.

 

AttributeError: getKeepWithNext

            190 frmMain.py: reports.makeDocument(self)

            86: reports.pu: doc.build(doc._flowables)

            702: doctemplate.py: self.handle_flowable(flowables)

            600: doctemplate.py: self.handle_keepWithNext(flowables)

            575: doctemplate.py: while i<n and
flowable[i].getKeepWithNext(): += 1

            77: frames.py: raise AttributeError, a

 

The code is added to this e-mail as attachment.

 

Thank you for the help

Riaan

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