Re: Print Total Pages in Report

[BillsVilla@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/9/2001 10:19:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
jlcrosby@fwi.com writes:


> BillsVilla@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Wow ... why not just take the total number of records to be processed and 
> > divide it by the number of records printed to a page?
> > 
> > Of course you will have to do it before the first heading line is 
> printed. 
> > Not exactly rocket science but i like to keep it simple for the next guy.
>
> 1) Because there might not be a one-to-one correlation between records and 
> print lines (i.e.,
> some records may cause more than 1 line to print).
>
> 2) Report breaks causing subheadings.
>
> 3) Report breaks causing page breaks.
>
> 4) Sometimes page breaks may cause page numbering to restart. 


Everything listed is control by something meaning you can place those same 
controls into your counter.

Read a record to print - add 1 to counter
read record to print that causes subtotals - add 2 to counter
read record that causes page break - add ##(to fill page) to counter

Restarting page numbering wouldn't matter when you are looking for a total 
number of pages to place in a "1 of 30" scenario. Even if it did you can 
still work around it. As a programmer that is your job.

And I have no clue what the 1 to 1 correlation stuff is all about because you 
would only count records falling under the same scenario as the ones being 
printed.

Oh well...

Guess that's what somebody's gets for making a suggestion.

Maybe you can tell my AS/400 how it won't work cause it works fine here.

Bill