[reportlab-users] Box with title and content portions having different background colors

[Benjamin Higgins]

I did something similar but like I stated earlier, this won't work when a
table cell doesn't fit on a page.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Michael Dorrian <michael.dorrian at gmail.com

> wrote:



> Have u tried nesting a table and paragraph inside another table....here is

> an example....u could also nest two paragraphs inside a table or add more as

> needed....the reportlab examples are good for this...test_table_layout.py

> has alot of info on this...

>

> from reportlab.platypus import Spacer, SimpleDocTemplate, Table, TableStyle

> from reportlab.lib.units import inch, cm

> from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph

> from reportlab.rl_config import defaultPageSize

> from reportlab.lib.units import inch,mm

> from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet, ParagraphStyle

> from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import A4,letter

> from reportlab.lib import colors

>

> def getTestTable():

>     t = Table((('Header 1','header 2','Header 3'),

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

>              ('Quarter 2',100,200),

>              ('Quarter 3',100,200),

>              ('Quarter 4',100,200),

>              ('Total',400,600)),

>              (60,80,46),

>              (24, 16,16,16,18,18)

>         )

>     return t

> def run():

>     doc = SimpleDocTemplate(filename="NestedTableTest.pdf",

>                                               pagesize=A4,

>                                               topMargin=0.5*inch,

>                                               bottomMargin=0.5*inch,

>                                               leftMargin=0.5*inch,

>

>  rightMargin=0.5*inch,showboundary=1)

>

>     my_paragraph_style

> =ParagraphStyle(name='my_paragraph_style',fontName='Helvetica',fontSize=11,leading=12,spaceBefore=0,leftIndent=0)

>     p1 = 'Table Title'

>     Story = []

>     ministy1 = TableStyle([('SPAN', (0, 0), (0, 0)),('GRID', (0,0),

> (-1,-1), 1.0, colors.black),])

>     ts = TableStyle([

>             ('GRID', (0,0), (-1,-1), 1.0, colors.black),

>             ])

>     t = getTestTable()

>     t.setStyle(ts)

>     P = Paragraph(p1,my_paragraph_style)

>     NestedTable = Table([[P],[t]],(200),style=ministy1)

>     Story.append(NestedTable)

>     doc.build(Story)

> if __name__ == "__main__":

>     run()

>

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Benjamin Higgins <bhiggins at gmail.com>wrote:

>

>> Well, there's going to be any number of these boxes appearing - it could

>> be just one or maybe a dozen, each with different contents and heights - so

>> I was hoping to implement it as a flowable element.

>>

>>

>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Roberto Alsina <

>> ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar> wrote:

>>

>>> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 19:24:29 Benjamin Higgins wrote:

>>> > Hi all,

>>> >

>>> > I've been trying to create a box that looks like this:

>>> >

>>> > +----------------+

>>> >

>>> > | Title          |

>>> > |+--------------+|

>>> > |

>>> > || Content      ||

>>> > |

>>> > |+--------------+|

>>> >

>>> > +----------------+

>>> >

>>> > I want the content area background to be white, and containing

>>> background

>>> > gray.

>>> >

>>> > My first attempt was to use a 3x3 table.  This worked almost perfectly,

>>> but

>>> > when the content is bigger than a page I get a LayoutError Flowable

>>> "too

>>> > large" exception.  From reading the archives, I gather that table cells

>>> > aren't able to be larger than a page.

>>> >

>>> > I'm now trying to find some other way to accomplish this design.

>>> >

>>> > Any tips?

>>>

>>> How about just drawing the grey background and white boxes in beforePage?

>>>

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