Create FloatingBox Object & Add Table inside FloatingBox in Android Apps

This technical tip shows how developers can create a simple FloatingBox object and then add a TextFragment to its paragraphs collection inside their Android application. As a sub-class of Paragraph, a FloatingBox is a box that contains one or more paragraphs. It can be positioned by a developer but not by the page render engine. There are methods which can be used to control the position of a floating box. The positioning of FloatingBox is absolute rather than relative. A code snippet depicts the behavior of adding table inside FloatingBox is also provided this post. The First part of code snippet shows how to create a simple FloatingBox object and then add a TextFragment to its paragraphs collection. As table is a paragraph level object, so it can also be added to the FloatinBox class' paragraphs collection. The 2nd part of the code snippet depicts the behavior of adding table inside FloatingBox.
//your code here...TextFragment in FloatingBox // Instantiate Document object Document doc = new Document(); // Add page to PDF document Page page = doc.getPages().add(); // Create FloatingBox object FloatingBox aBox = new FloatingBox(40, 60); // Set left position for FloatingBox aBox.setLeft(40); // Set Top position for FloatingBox aBox.setTop(80); // Set the vertical alignment for FloatingBox aBox.setVerticalAlignment(com.aspose.pdf.VerticalAlignment.Bottom); // Set Horizontal alignment for FloatingBox aBox.setHorizontalAlignment(com.aspose.pdf.HorizontalAlignment.Center); // Add text fragment to paragraphs collection of FloatingBox aBox.getParagraphs().add(new TextFragment("main text")); // Set border for FloatingBox aBox.setBorder(new BorderInfo(15 /*BorderSide.Box*/)); // Set background color for FloatingBox aBox.setBackgroundColor(com.aspose.pdf.Color.getYellow()); // Add FloatingBox to paragraphs collection of page object page.getParagraphs().add(aBox); // Set background of PDF page page.setBackground(com.aspose.java.awt.Color.LIGHT_GRAY); // Save the PDF document doc.save(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/FloatingBox.pdf"); //Table inside FloatingBox // Instantiate Document object Document doc = new Document(); // Add page to PDF document Page page = doc.getPages().add(); // Create FloatingBox object FloatingBox aBox = new FloatingBox(200, 100); // Trim the contents exceeding FloatingBox dimensions aBox.isExtraContentClip(true); // Specify if you need to repeat the FloatingBox aBox.isNeedRepeating(false); // Set left position for FloatingBox aBox.setLeft(40); // Set top position for FloatingBox aBox.setTop(80); // Set the vertical alignment for FloatingBox aBox.setVerticalAlignment(com.aspose.pdf.VerticalAlignment.Bottom); // Set horizontal alignment for FloatingBox aBox.setHorizontalAlignment(com.aspose.pdf.HorizontalAlignment.Center); // Set border for FloatingBox aBox.setBorder(new BorderInfo(15 /*BorderSide.Box*/, com.aspose.pdf.Color.getBlack())); // Set background color for FloatingBox aBox.setBackgroundColor(com.aspose.pdf.Color.getYellow()); // Add FloatingBox to paragraphs collection of page object page.getParagraphs().add(aBox); // Instantiate Table object com.aspose.pdf.Table table = new com.aspose.pdf.Table(); // Set width of table columns table.setColumnWidths("100 100"); // Create a loop object for (int i = 1; i <= 20; i++) { // Create a new row object and add it to table object Row row = table.getRows().add(); // Add cell to cells collection of newly added row object row.getCells().add("Columns 1, line " + i); // Add another cell object row.getCells().add("Columns 2, line " + i); } // Add table to paragraphs collection of FloatingBox aBox.getParagraphs().add(table); // Save the PDF document doc.save(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/FloatingBox.pdf");

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Language: Java | User: Sheraz Khan | Created: Mar 12, 2014 | Tags: Create simple Floating Box object Working with FloatingBox add a TextFragment into FloatingBox object, control the position of a floating box, add Table inside FloatingBox, Android PDF API add a TextFragment into FloatingBox control the position of a floating box add Table inside FloatingBox Android PDF API