Comments on: The Rewrite And The Bug Fix http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2010/02/the-rewrite-and-the-bug-fix/ When Peoplebooks Is Not Enough Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:54:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: administrator http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2010/02/the-rewrite-and-the-bug-fix/comment-page-1/#comment-5954 administrator Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:20:25 +0000 http://peoplesoftsqr.com/?p=657#comment-5954 The short answer is no. That's why I had to rewrite the program using a more complex algorithm. The long answer is, the SQR Language Reference hints that Oracle could do it, but it would be difficult for them to implement and difficult for us to use. Since Oracle hasn't made even the easy improvements to SQR, I don't think we'll ever get this feature. SQR has a feature called "last-page" which allows us to enhance our page numbering with phrases like "Page 1 of 10". When we use "last-page", SQR keeps all our printed output in a buffer until the program has ended. It counts the pages (this is independent of the #page-count variable, so don't bother to manipulate it) and annotates each page in the buffer with the final page count. Wow! Think of what we could do with access to that buffer. Now think about never being able to do it. Sorry. The short answer is no. That’s why I had to rewrite the program using a more complex algorithm.

The long answer is, the SQR Language Reference hints that Oracle could do it, but it would be difficult for them to implement and difficult for us to use. Since Oracle hasn’t made even the easy improvements to SQR, I don’t think we’ll ever get this feature.

SQR has a feature called “last-page” which allows us to enhance our page numbering with phrases like “Page 1 of 10″. When we use “last-page”, SQR keeps all our printed output in a buffer until the program has ended. It counts the pages (this is independent of the #page-count variable, so don’t bother to manipulate it) and annotates each page in the buffer with the final page count.

Wow! Think of what we could do with access to that buffer. Now think about never being able to do it. Sorry.

]]> By: Lulu Catarroja http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2010/02/the-rewrite-and-the-bug-fix/comment-page-1/#comment-5953 Lulu Catarroja Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:31:55 +0000 http://peoplesoftsqr.com/?p=657#comment-5953 Hi! I wanted to ask if there is a syntax/command to go back to the previous page. I have a similar situation in which I have 2 arrays.. However, if the first array printed on one column has moved to the next page, the second array (2nd column) continues to print on where the cursor stopped (which is the 2nd page). I would just need to control the page to go back the previous. I have tried doing let #prev-page = #page-count - 1 and it doesn't seem to work. Please advise. Thank you. Lulu Catarroja 215/784-1448 Hi! I wanted to ask if there is a syntax/command to go back to the previous page. I have a similar situation in which I have 2 arrays.. However, if the first array printed on one column has moved to the next page, the second array (2nd column) continues to print on where the cursor stopped (which is the 2nd page). I would just need to control the page to go back the previous. I have tried doing let #prev-page = #page-count – 1 and it doesn’t seem to work. Please advise. Thank you. Lulu Catarroja 215/784-1448

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