[Gambas-user] Question about repeating sections using gb.report with Gambas3

[Greg Raffaelle]

Fabien,

I will review your edits of the files OutputReport.report and 
OutputReport.class and see if I can get the report section to repeat in 
my application.

To answer your question about time learning to use the gb.report 
component it was significant (perhaps 60 hours over the course of four 
to five weeks).  I started by experimenting with the example program 
that can with Gambas3 and with the couple of examples I found on the 
internet.  I also watched the videos you created on utube many times. 
To get the report formatted the way I wanted involved many trial and 
error runs.  For me I found it useful to have borders around all items 
to see how they behaved.  Then when I got the format of the report 
worked out I would turn off the borders I did not want on the final 
report.  My number one request would be to have some written 
documentation of the usage and abilities of the gb.report component.

On a previous program I created with Gambas, I created my own print 
preview form.  I was also printing tables in that program and I had to 
create all the tables using draw commands.  That took me more time than 
it did to learn to use the gb.report component.  I feel with gb.report 
once it is learned, the ability to create print pages will be an easier 
and simpler task each time you use it.  I think gb.report is a marvelous 
component of Gambas and I would not want to go back writing all the draw 
code to create printed pages from scratch.

Thanks for your assistance and thanks for the gb.report component.
Greg