Posts Tagged ‘birt’
Unfortunately the default memory settings for Eclipse are not sufficient to run BIRT properly on Ubuntu. Editing BIRT reports was fine on my machine, but the preview always crashed or froze Eclipse. When run from the command line, errors like these came up: Exception in thread “SocketListener0-0” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space Exception in thread “SocketListener0-1” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: […]
There’s a strange bug in BIRT charting with Firefox on Linux. Some charts are rendered with horizontal and vertical scrollbars, sort of like an embedded frame which is too big to fit in the allocated space. The fix for this annoyance is straightforward, simply change the output format from SVG to PNG on the first […]
Here’s how to create simple uniform table borders in BIRT. This seems very obvious once you know how to do it, but messing around again and again with cell and row borders without getting the right result can be very frustrating! Hover over the table to get the “Table” handle in the bottom left corner. […]
The property which controls text wrapping (line breaks) in table cells and other objects in BIRT is accessed in the Properties Editor window under Properties > Advanced > Text > Whitespace. Simply set the value to “No Wrapping” and the contents of the cell will be displayed on a single line.
Update: The technique documented in this post is applicable for alternating styles of detail rows. For a way of achieving the effect in a table consisting of summary rows only, please refer to this later post. To set different styles for alternate table detail rows in BIRT: Select the detail row – hover over the […]