com.lowagie.text.pdf.events
Class PdfPCellEventForwarder

java.lang.Object
  com.lowagie.text.pdf.events.PdfPCellEventForwarder

All Implemented Interfaces:

PdfPCellEvent

public class PdfPCellEventForwarder
extends java.lang.Object
implements PdfPCellEvent

If you want to add more than one event to a cell, you have to construct a PdfPCellEventForwarder, add the different events to this object and add the forwarder to the PdfPCell.

Field Summary

protected java.util.ArrayList

events ArrayList containing all the PageEvents that have to be executed.

Constructor Summary

PdfPCellEventForwarder()

Method Summary

void	addCellEvent(PdfPCellEvent event) Add a page event to the forwarder.
void	cellLayout(PdfPCell cell, Rectangle position, PdfContentByte[] canvases) This method is called at the end of the cell rendering.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

events

protected java.util.ArrayList events

ArrayList containing all the PageEvents that have to be executed.

Constructor Detail

PdfPCellEventForwarder

public PdfPCellEventForwarder()

Method Detail

addCellEvent

public void addCellEvent(PdfPCellEvent event)

Add a page event to the forwarder.

Parameters:

event - an event that has to be added to the forwarder.

cellLayout

public void cellLayout(PdfPCell cell,
                       Rectangle position,
                       PdfContentByte[] canvases)

Description copied from interface: PdfPCellEvent

This method is called at the end of the cell rendering. The text or graphics are added to one of the 4 PdfContentByte contained in canvases.
The indexes to canvases are:

• PdfPTable.BASECANVAS - the original PdfContentByte. Anything placed here will be under the cell.
• PdfPTable.BACKGROUNDCANVAS - the layer where the background goes to.
• PdfPTable.LINECANVAS - the layer where the lines go to.
• PdfPTable.TEXTCANVAS - the layer where the text go to. Anything placed here will be over the cell.

The layers are placed in sequence on top of each other.

Specified by:

cellLayout in interface PdfPCellEvent

Parameters:

cell - the cell

position - the coordinates of the cell

canvases - an array of PdfContentByte

See Also:

PdfPCellEvent.cellLayout(com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell, com.lowagie.text.Rectangle, com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte[])