I have a problem that's driving me crazy. I'm working on OSX 10.4 on
an iBook G4 with Dreamcard 2.6.1, and I run this particular stack
system under the IDE exclusively. It's a stack for printing clinical
notes, but it has lots of bells & whistles. I have a substack for
printing a formatted letter, with some header fields and a main text
field. The user opens the substack with a button, the main field is
loaded with the date, addressee, etc, and is set to scrolling style,
then the user types the letter, then clicks a print button to print
the letter (the letter content gets saved as a custom property of the
originating card). A set of handlers then resets the style of the
field to opaque and expands it vertically along with the stack window
to page-size, prints the first page with the headers, then expands
the text field to full page size (covering the headers), and scrolls
the text repeatedly by the proper amount to print the subsequent pages.
I kept having problems with the print output -- the text field was
apparently not expanding to full page size and only the top 25 lines
were being printed. I traced the problem down to this: after I expand
the stack rect to full page size and expand the text field to fit the
new window size, the height of the stack is 830 as it should be but
the height of the card is 676, thus cutting off the lower part of the
field from printing when I print the card. The weird thing is that it
happens some of the time but not all the time. At one point I thought
I could get it to work properly by setting a breakpoint -- every time
I ran it without interrupting the script it failed, and every time I
stopped it with a breakpoint to try to debug it by stepping through
the script it worked fine. Then it stopped working even with the
breakpoint. I put in a "hard" breakpoint --
if cardHeight <> stackHeight then
breakpoint
end if
in the script right after where I reset the size of the window and
the field, and it gets triggered! I can't figure out what could make
the card height different from the stack height. I can't set the
height of the card to fix it. Now it seems to work occasionally but
mostly not, with no pattern I can see.
Does it have to do with stuff I don't understand about setting the
rect of a stack vs the rect of a window? I sure don't seem to get
something important about the window size vs the card size. What
could be making the card rect be different from the window rect? And
why would this be intermittent? I'm getting pretty frantic, since as
it stands I can't even print my clinical notes properly now and it's
seriously interfering with me managing my practice....
-- Peter Brigham
Peter M. Brigham, MD
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