On 6/3/13 1:25 AM, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
> You mentioned in the thread I started on the ReportLab list that Dabo's
> ReportDesigner deals nicely with large text fields.
> 
> I thought I better have another look at it;-) , so cloned the latest on 
> github and
> looked at the screen casts.
> 
> One hurdle is that most menu items in the designer don't show their label.

I remember someone else mentioning this and can't remember the solution. However
remember we are still using wx2.8.

> Is this my install or ....?  I forked your repo and then cloned the fork to 
> my local
> machine and then setup a dabo.pth file in site-packages to point to my local 
> repo, is
> that an o.k. way to do it?

That's exactly how I wouldv'e done it.

> Before I go any further with all this could you let me know if I could feed 
> it data
> using SQLAlchemy, if yes would appreciate any pointers to get going.

Dabo's reportwriter wants dataset-like structures, which is a sequence (list, 
tuple)
of mappings (dict), where each key in the mapping is a field name, and each 
item in
the outer sequence is a "record".

It also wants denormalized data, so select all your data and repeat yourself in 
the
dataset. Add calculcated fields to it if you want.

It's very database-agnostic.

Paul

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