Re: Page Line Length

Posted in 1995

Jonathan Leffler — 30 Oct 1995 12:03:03 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Appendix J of the Informix FAQ contains code to allow you to set the page length, left, right, top and bottom margins dynamically -- that is, the values are determined at run-time. It is not, admittedly, officially supported. But it still works. The FAQ contains lots of useful information. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> >From: Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no >Date: 29 Oct 1995 19:06:32 GMT >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.18373> > >> spuffer@clark.net (M J Spuffer) writes: >> [...] How do you write one >> report which will run on a lazer printer (57 print lines) or a line >> printer (66 lines) without replicating the entire report section? > >There is no way to set the page length at runtime in 4GL. (Yes, that is >incredible, but it is still the case - it's fixed in NewEra.) In NewEra, you can use global variables (external to report function) to specify the page dimensions; the values at START REPORT time are the dimensions of the report.