[Rlib-devel] Please try RLIB 1.3.6

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

All,

I have a pre release of RLIB 1.3.6 I would like you to try

http://www.sicom.com/~bdoan/rlib-1.3.6.tar.gz


The big changes include:

1) Multi Line Support (Comment Fields, Memo Fields.. what ever you want
to call them) See: http://www.sicom.com/~bdoan/report.pdf

2) Official MetaData Support.  This allows you to tell rlib that a
"field" is a specific formula and to use it that way across the report..
Ie:

<MetaData>
	<MetaData name="somenumberfield" value="val(somenumberfield)"/>
	<MetaData name="last_name" value="upper(last_name)"/>
</MetaData>

Anywhere in the report you can reference the above fields normally and
will be what you requested (In the case of somenumberfield it will
always be val'd)

3) Precalculated variable values!  This is useful if you need the break
subtotal in the break header (Or Earlier).  Or If you want to have the
report totals at the top of the report.  This slows RLIB down a tad
because it has to now be a two pass layout engine.

To use it include precalculate="yes" in the variable definition

4) RPDF is now a lot faster

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There's a good chance I could have broke the layout engine (Especially
for non English speaking folks)  Please let me know how it goes

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5) Also suppressPageHeaderFirstPage works again

Enjoy!

- bob