Question about example scripts

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Question about example scripts

Post by NingImport » Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:08 pm

Question about example scripts

Posted by Mike Kerner on July 28, 2008 at 12:44am

Jan,
In the process of trying to figure out why certain things work and certain other ones don't, I've gone back to the card scripts, where I find certain other hidden other goodies:

myReportPath() - what would be the script for this?
Also you use the property the uReportFile of me - which I assume is just a custom property that you assigned for the sake of having it handy, right?

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Reply by Jan Schenkel on July 28, 2008 at 10:25pm

Correct on both accounts:

1. MyReportsPath is a function in the stack script:
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function MyReportPath
set the itemDelimiter to "/"
put item 1 to -2 of (the effective filename of me) into tStackPath
return (tStackPath & "/Sample layouts/")
end MyReportPath
##
Though I have slightly refined it in recent articles:
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function MyReportPath pRelativePath
put the effective filename of this stack into tAbsolutePath
set the itemDelimiter to "/"
put pRelativePath into the last item of tAbsolutePath
return tAbsolutePath
end MyReportPath
##

2. the uReportFile of me was just handy when I was building the Report samples stack - which has undergone quite a few changes since the very first one that I put together as I was developing Quartam Reports 1.0 way back when...
As you've guessed, revamping it is on my to do-list for version 2.0 :-)

Jan Schenkel
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