A bug in Quatram Reports 1.1 using radio buttons.

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A bug in Quatram Reports 1.1 using radio buttons.

Posted by Charles61 on August 12, 2008 at 1:33am

I found a bug in Quatram Reports 1.1 involving printing labels of radio buttons. I have a six groups of radio buttons. Each group has 6 buttons. i also have six check marks, which are independent of the buttons and 12 data fields.

I used Jan's suggestion for printing the labels of a group of radio buttons of a data field with the expression:

the label of button (the hilitedButton of group "RadioButtonGroup") of group "RadioButtonGroup"

for the five groups.

My expression was:

the label of button (the hilitedButton of group "Radio1") of group "Radio1"

Each group of radio buttons has the same code with a change in the name of the radio groups, group "radio2", etc.

When I click print a report, the first and second times it prints without any errors. The third time I get a message: "Group: bad object type". n each case, no new data was entered.

The reason I tried printing several times is because I was getting the error message for the sixth button after putting the code separately for each button and then running the program to see if the code was okay. I deleted the code for the sixth group of buttons. Then I got the results above: the first and printing fine but the third printing give the error message ("Group: bad object type").

I am using a Mac with OS 10.5.4. Has anybody else run into this problem? This type of problems reduces the possibility of using Quatram Reports 1.1 in an app.

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Reply by Jan Schenkel on August 12, 2008 at 8:53pm

Hi Charles,

Generally speaking, if it works for 5 groups, then it ought to work for the sixth group - so there must be a difference somewhere... As you're printing data from a stack, I'm assuming that the groups are part of a background and the data is stored over multiple cards?

All speculation, of course. If you would send me the stack and the layout file directly at support@quartam.com, I'll have a look and see if I can replicate the problem and propose a solution.

Best regards,

Jan Schenkel
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Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution
www.quartam.com

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Reply by Charles61 on August 12, 2008 at 9:29pm

Hi Jan!

There is only card in my stack. I did find that the error: Group: bad object type occur less when I close QR Builder. Then I tried printing I got the error on a sporactic basis. With an actual standalone, I am not getting the error! So, maybe it has to do with QR running?