Re: Changing PdfPTable width from RPGLE using iText

Jon Paris <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Apr 2023 12:38:50 -0400
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Can't really offer much help as it appears that that version of iText is so old that it is no longer available for download.  

What you have done looks correct but ...


Jon P.

> On Apr 8, 2023, at 12:11 PM, Rich Dotson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sorry about that    Yes.  My call was exactly as you described.
> 
> pTable_setWidthPercentage( newTable : 90 );
> 
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> Subject: Re: Changing PdfPTable width from RPGLE using iText
> 
> You haven't shown how you do the call - did you include the object as the first parameter?
> 
> I would expect it to be:
> 
> pTable_setWidthPercentage( newTable : 90 );
> 
> 
> Jon P.
> 
>> On Apr 7, 2023, at 2:39 PM, Rich Dotson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> We use the techniques from the Advanced Integrated RPG book by Thomas Snyder to create PDFs with RPG.
>> 
>> I am trying to modify the width of a table inside a .pdf using using RPGLE. I would like to use the 'setWidthPercentage' method to adjust the table size but I can not get it to work in my RPGLE program.   It defaults the table width to 80% of the page and I need to increase it sightly.
>> 
>> I have found the Java code to set the width of the table.
>> 
>> table.setWidthPercentage(90);
>> 
>> 
>> The problem I am having is translating that code to RPG.
>> 
>> I am able to create a two column table using:
>> 
>> newTable = new_pdfptable(2);
>> 
>> 
>> I tried defining the 'setWidthPercentage' using:
>> 
>> dcl-pr  pTable_setWidthPercentage  ExtProc(*JAVA
>>                                  :'com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable'
>>                                  :'setWidthPercentage');
>>  prWidthPct     int(10)   value;
>> end-pr;
>> 
>> 
>> When I try to use it I get the 'java.lang.NoSuchMethodError' message.    The documentation I've found online states that the 'setWidthPercentage' method is in that .jar file version we have loaded.
>> 
>> Any suggestions on how I can change the size of the table?
>> 
>> Thanks, -Rich
>> 
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