01 The class ReportFrame

ReportFrame is an abstract base class which defines some functions and attributes which are inherited by concrete classes like TextFrame. I will describe these concrete classes in later sections of this document.

As said earlier in this document, a frame is a rectangular region on the paper that may have some content like text or an image or other things.

The class offers the following attributes. They have getters and setters.

• hAlignment, vAlignment – horizontal and vertical alignment
• marginLeft, marginTop, marginRight, marginBottom – margins on all four sides
• useFullHeight, useFullWidth – flags if the frame uses the whole possible space
• keepTogether – flag if the frame and all its content keep together on the same page
• maxWidth, maxHeight – maximal dimensions of the frame

These attributes are available in all the derived classes. They control the calculation of sizes and positions of frames.

ReportFrame offers a lot of functions that will be used by the Report class to calculate the size and position of the frame. Normally you must not use any of these functions.