[reportlab-users] Getting Nested table aligned to top

[Mike Driscoll]

Hi Robin,

> Mike Driscoll wrote:

>> Hi,

>>

>> It looks like my post got eaten due to my screenshot, so I have 

>> uploaded it to flickr: 

>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/25220999@N03/3773123700/

>>

>> I am trying to get a set of nested tables to align at the top. There 

>> are 6 rows in the screenshot. The first row is 3 "Earnings", the 2nd 

>> is the four row table, the 3rd is three "Deductions", the 4th is the 

>> 5 row table, etc. Notice that the bottom row has the first two 

>> columns lower the the last one. Is there a way to force that row to 

>> be aligned at the top? Right now, I use the following code:

>>

>> tblThree = Table(data3, colWidths=colWidths, style=LIST_STYLE, 

>> hAlign="LEFT", vAlign="TOP")

>>

>> This does not work. Does anyone have a better idea? I am using Python 

>> 2.5 on Windows XP with the latest ReportLab.

>>

>> Thanks,

>>

>> Mike

>

> This single row example shows nested tables aligned right, top.

>

> ###############################################################

> from reportlab.lib import colors

> from reportlab.platypus.doctemplate import SimpleDocTemplate

> def getTable(x=0):

>     data=[('','Europe','Asia'),

>         ('Quarter 1',100,200),

>         ('Quarter 2',100,400),

>         ]

>     W=[62,26,26]

>     H=[24,16,16,18]

>     if x:

>         data[3:3] = [('Quarter 3',103,404),('Quarter 4',104,396)]

>         H[3:3] = [16,16]

>     LR = ['Total',300,600]

>     for j in xrange(1,len(LR)):

>         LR[j] = sum([data[i][j] for i in xrange(1,len(data))])

>     data.append(LR)

>     return Table(data,W,H,style=TableStyle([('GRID', (0,0), (-1,-1), 

> 0.25, colors.black),('FONTSIZE',(0,0),(-1,-1),8)]))

>

> T=Table([[getTable(0),getTable(0),getTable(1)]],

>             style=TableStyle([

>                 ('ALIGN', (0,0), (-1,0), 'RIGHT'),

>                 ('VALIGN', (0,0), (-1,-1), 'TOP'),

>                 ('GRID', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.red),

>                 ]),

>             )

> SimpleDocTemplate('tnestt.pdf', showBoundary=1).build([T])

> ###############################################################


That worked quite well. I don't know why setting "valign" didn't, but 
I'm glad this worked. Thanks for the example. I had to tweak it a little 
as three rows were aligning themselves to the left and one to the right, 
but it's much closer to what it should be.

Thanks again,

Mike