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[PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi,

How do I see in the designer which font/style applies to field?

Currently I seem to have to look at the field, click the list and see if 
there is something defined, if not go up to the section and repeat 
checking the list and if not go up to the report and check the list again.

Instead of what is shown now:

(style_list) or (font_list)

  could it show e.g.:

(font_list) - selected font name

Currently the Edit list shows e.g. for fonts something like:

font13
font14
font15
font16

Could it show instead the name of the fonts?

title
pagetitle
body
bold

If I can come up with a patch would above be fine or would you like 
something different?

Werner

Re: [PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[alexander s. <al...@go...>]

Werner F. Bruhin wrote, at 10.12.2012 16:52:
>
> How do I see in the designer which font/style applies to field?

I don't think you can, at present.  Evaluating the styles to find which 
font applies is a task of report builder; template editor does not have 
enough brains for that.

> Currently I seem to have to look at the field, click the list and see if
> there is something defined, if not go up to the section and repeat
> checking the list and if not go up to the report and check the list again.
>
> Instead of what is shown now:
>
> (style_list) or (font_list)
>
>    could it show e.g.:
>
> (font_list) - selected font name

That would be nontrivial with conditional and inherited styles.

> Currently the Edit list shows e.g. for fonts something like:
>
> font13
> font14
> font15
> font16
>
> Could it show instead the name of the fonts?
>
> title
> pagetitle
> body
> bold
>
> If I can come up with a patch would above be fine or would you like
> something different?

Font names are fine.  Even better would be name followed by font specs 
in brackets, like this:

   pagetitle (14bi:Helvetica)

Best wishes,
alex.

Re: [PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi Alex,

On 10/12/2012 18:51, alexander smishlajev wrote:
> Werner F. Bruhin wrote, at 10.12.2012 16:52:
>> How do I see in the designer which font/style applies to field?
> I don't think you can, at present.  Evaluating the styles to find which
> font applies is a task of report builder; template editor does not have
> enough brains for that.
I did not explain well what I think would be nice to see.

I am not looking to see what font/style applies but what font/style is 
defined at a certain level without having to open the list.

In other words, if I define "specialfieldstyle" on a field I like to see 
in the property grid instead of:

(style_list)

to show:

(style_list - specialfieldstyle) or something along these lines

if on a particular field no style is defined then it would still show:

(style_list)

In which case I have to go up the hierarchy to see what would apply.

Werner

Re: [PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi Alex,

Attached a patch to show fonts in the list as e.g.:

body (8biu:Arial)

and styles in the list as e.g.:

style 2 - body

Werner

Re: [PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[alexander s. <al...@go...>]

On 21.12.2012 20:16, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
>
> Attached a patch to show fonts in the list as e.g.:
>
> body (8biu:Arial)
>
> and styles in the list as e.g.:
>
> style 2 - body

Thank you.

I have a question: may the computation of list titles be done by the 
values themselves?  ListPropertyDialog does not seem to be the right 
place for this.

Best wishes,
alex.

Re: [PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

On 22/12/2012 08:39, alexander smishlajev wrote:
> On 21.12.2012 20:16, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
>> Attached a patch to show fonts in the list as e.g.:
>>
>> body (8biu:Arial)
>>
>> and styles in the list as e.g.:
>>
>> style 2 - body
> Thank you.
>
> I have a question: may the computation of list titles be done by the
> values themselves?  ListPropertyDialog does not seem to be the right
> place for this.
I had tried to do it in class ListElement and replace how self.name is 
generated in there, but I hit a wall in not being able to figure out how 
to get at the attributes value (shows my lack of Python knowhow:-( ).

How do I get at if bold is true or false?
attributes['bold']
(<class 'PythonReports.datatypes.Boolean'>, <Boolean: false>)

And how to get at the typeface name at that point?
attributes['typeface']
(<class 'PythonReports.datatypes.String'>, 
<PythonReports.datatypes.REQUIRED object at 0x05D0CF70>)

Werner

Re: [PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi Alex,

I think I got it, they are in self.properties for the ListElement, I'll 
make that change.

Werner

Re: [PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

On 22/12/2012 10:03, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> I think I got it, they are in self.properties for the ListElement, I'll
> make that change.
I moved it to ListPropertyValue.after_property_changed , had it first in 
__init__ but at that point e.g. font name shows "default" instead of "body".

Werner

Re: [PythonReports-users] Font and Style use and how they are shown in lists

[alexander s. <al...@go...>]

On 22.12.2012 11:42, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
>>
>> I think I got it, they are in self.properties for the ListElement, I'll
>> make that change.
> I moved it to ListPropertyValue.after_property_changed , had it first in
> __init__ but at that point e.g. font name shows "default" instead of
> "body".

This is checked in.  Thank you.

Merry Christmas,
alex.