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Interface PdfPTableEvent

public interface PdfPTableEvent

An interface that can be used to retrieve the position of cells in PdfPTable.

Author: Paulo Soares (psoares@consiste.pt)

Method Summary
voidtableLayout(PdfPTable table, float[][] widths, float[] heights, int headerRows, int rowStart, PdfContentByte[] canvases)
This method is called at the end of the table rendering.

Method Detail

tableLayout

public void tableLayout(PdfPTable table, float[][] widths, float[] heights, int headerRows, int rowStart, PdfContentByte[] canvases)
This method is called at the end of the table rendering. The text or graphics are added to one of the 4 PdfContentByte contained in canvases.
The indexes to canvases are:

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

The widths and heights have the coordinates of the cells.
The size of the widths array is the number of rows. Each sub-array in widths corresponds to the x column border positions where the first element is the x coordinate of the left table border and the last element is the x coordinate of the right table border. If colspan is not used all the sub-arrays in widths are the same.
For the heights the first element is the y coordinate of the top table border and the last element is the y coordinate of the bottom table border.

Parameters: table the PdfPTable in use widths an array of arrays with the cells' x positions. It has the length of the number of rows heights an array with the cells' y positions. It has a length of the number of rows + 1 headerRows the number of rows defined for the header. rowStart the first row number after the header canvases an array of PdfContentByte