Re: SQR last-page problem

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Terry,

I've never tried exactly what you're doing, but you might
be able to get away with generating the first report,
switch over to the second report and give a new value to
#current-page and write the second report, and then switch
back to the first report and set #page-count to be the
highest page number printed _plus 1_.

For example, this little text program may demonstrate the
idea:

   begin-program
   do main
   end-program

   begin-heading 2
   page-number (1,1) 'Page '
   last-page () ' of ' '.'
   end-heading
   begin-procedure main
   print 'Howdy' (1,1)
   new-page
   print 'Howdy' (1,1)
   new-page
   print 'Howdy' (1,1)
   new-page
   print 'Howdy' (1,1)
   new-page
   move 10 to #page-count
   end-procedure

It produces this output:

   Page 1 of 9.

   Howdy
<ff>
   Page 2 of 9.

   Howdy
<ff>
   Page 3 of 9.

   Howdy
<ff>
   Page 4 of 9.

   Howdy
<ff>

Hope this helps.

Ray

> Hi,
>
> I am using SQR v4 for UNIX environment.
>
> I need to print out a single document consists of two different report
> layout. So I used 'use-report' to print the output onto the different
> report layout. The problem is I need to have "page <current-page> of
> <last-page>" on every page of this single document. With 'use-report'
> it will resets the <current page> to whatever page the report is
> currently on and it will also have two <last page> instead of one
>
> What I need is one continous sequence of current page and last page
> across two different report layouts because they afterall one document.
> I could program my own logic to work out  the current page, but what
> about the last page?
> SQR prints out the page on the fly and there is no way of delay printing
> it or is there?
>
> The current method I could think of is to insert a '@@'  in each page
> and then after the report is produced (I will have the last page value).
> Using UNIX commands to search and replace the '@@' with the last page
> value. But I feel it is not a neat way of doing it - does any experts
> out there have any insight??
>
> Please advise
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
>
> Terry Cheung - Bertelsmann mediaSystems
> BMG Distribution, Unit 24 Crystal Drive, Warley, West Midlands, B66 1QG,
> United Kingdom.
> * terry.cheung@bmg.co.uk
> * terry.cheung@bertelsmann.de
> * Tel: +(44)-121-543-4276
>

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