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Interface PdfPCellEvent

All Known Implementing Classes:

FieldPositioningEvents, PdfPCellEventForwarder, SimpleCell

public interface PdfPCellEvent

An event called for a single cell.

Author:

Paulo Soares (psoares@consiste.pt)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	cellLayout(PdfPCell cell, Rectangle position, PdfContentByte[] canvases) This method is called at the end of the cell rendering.

Method Detail

cellLayout

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

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.

Parameters:

cell - the cell

position - the coordinates of the cell

canvases - an array of PdfContentByte