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Custom emitter: how to obtain dynamic text value? [message #522895]

Wed, 24 March 2010 12:08

Danny

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Registered: March 2010

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I am writing a plain text emitter (for output of reports to dot matrix and band printers).

My ContentEmitterAdapter subclass is handling labels and data fine in startText(). However, when dynamic text items are encountered it appears that neither startText() nor startData() is called.

I would expect that at this (rendering) stage, the actual value of dynamic text should have been generated and be available. Am I wrong?

I can get at the *design* object for dynamic texts via getGenerateBy() on the container, but what I need is the generated value.

Any help appreciated!

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