Re: DocumentView confusion

[Gianluigi <gradobag@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 16/11/25 14:34, gbWilly ha scritto:
> Since you are the author of the component, what I would like is some 
> answers to what is discussed in this thread. No person better suited to 
> shed some light on it all.
>
> And Lee was not looking for a pdf viewer, but trying to help me figure 
> out what is going on with DocumentView. He just needed a hand in how to 
> get the pdf file into the DocumentView.
> Above is what he discovered and that should be looked at. After his 
> testing he comes to a lot of conclusion I come to as well (see earlier 
> posts in this thread), that something is off.
>
> We, by now,  both understood that the index is used to get the page, but 
> there are :
> - some properties that make no sense in what they return, something is off
> - Property ShowPage sometimes shows wrong page number on the 
> DocumentView. It should do:
> index = 0 it shows actual page 1 and says 1/total on the view -> good
> index = 1 it shows actual page 2 and says 2/total on the view -> good
> etc..
> I have had situation where:
> index = 1 it shows actual page 2 and says 1.total on the veiw -> not good.
> When this happens I can't scroll to the real page 1 on index 0 as 
> somehow because of the ShowPage it thinks it is already on page 1 
> (although showing page 2). Since I created a thumbnail index I can click 
> on the real page 1 and get there.
> When I do this on the DocumentView (because of ShowPage =True) it shows 
> that I go from page *1/total *(showing page 2) to *page 1/ 
> total* (showing proper page 1 now), that seems like a bug to me..
>
> So, please take some time to see what is happening and take away the 
> confusion (or bugs) ;-)
>
> gbWilly


Hi Fabien, gbWilly, and Lee,

I apologize for the intrusion, but to better understand you (us), I 
posted Fabien's test project here:
https://paste.c-net.org/UrgencyPulse
I used an old lecture by Professor Hans and incorporated it into the 
project.
It contains indexes, so I think the PDF is suitable.

Best regards
Gianluigi