[reportlab-users] frame in pageTemplate

[Robin Becker]

Arkadi Colson wrote:

> Hi all,

> 

> 

> Somebody any idea why I only get one frame on the document instead of 3?

> Here is my code:

.........

> 

>                Elements.append(Paragraph("Frame one column", 

> styles['Normal']))

>                Elements.append(PageBreak())

>                Elements.append(Paragraph("Frame two columns", 

> styles['Normal']))

........
I think the problem is the confusion of FrameBreak with PageBreak. At the 
beginning of the world someone created the PageBreak when it actually meant 
frame break. The PageBreak originally just consumed all available space so it 
was actually like a FrameBreak.

However, by mistake someone else (probably me) fixed this situation so that 
PageBreak() did what it says on the tin and it gets handled now by the 
doctemplate class before it gets a chance to be a consumer of all space in the 
current frame.

To make matters worse the situation persists in the conditional page break 
(CondPageBreak) where it is really a conditional FrameBreak.
-- 
Robin Becker