Inserting blobs in the page header of a report

"Jose Año" wrote: > > Could anyone tell me how I can insert a blob n the page header of a report. > I'd like to obtain any related information about blobs and how they operate. > I think that there's some useful stuff for you at the informix user group, including a program to do just what you want. Have a look at this list: < http://www.iiug.org/software/index_I4GL.html>; Andrew Pearson. -- Usenet, a global collection of flaming opinions and senseless babble, was designed as a way to eat up precious spool space on a system's hard drive. It also is a way for people to distribute pornography. (By Robert A. Hayden <www.geekcode.com>)

Could anyone tell me how I can insert a blob n the page header of a report. I'd like to obtain any related information about blobs and how they operate. The steps I have done are: Draw anyting with an Imge editor in windows and then I print it to a file. Once I have obtained it, I try to print it from a 4gl report but the output on the printer are wrong characters. I hope answers Bye , Jose

"Jose Año" wrote: > > Could anyone tell me how I can insert a blob n the page header of a report. > I'd like to obtain any related information about blobs and how they operate. > > The steps I have done are: > > Draw anyting with an Imge editor in windows and then I print it to a file. > Once I have obtained it, I try to print it from a 4gl report but the output > on the printer are wrong characters. The PAGE HEADER and PAGE TRAILER (and FIRST PAGE HEADER) have to be of a fixed length. Blobs are of variable length, and cannot therefore be printed in the PH or PT blocks of a report. Similarly, you can you PRINT FILE in those blocks, for the same reason -- the report mechanism doesn't know ahead of time how much space to reserve for them. -- Yours, Jonathan Leffler (Jonathan.Leffler@Informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"