A document can be filled in one of two ways: either you decide to
create pages, fill them with IlvPrintableObject instances, and add them to
a document, or you create a document that contains styled text. In
the second case you use the IlvFlow class.
The
IlvFlow
class represents a flow of text with styling attributes that
constitutes the content of the document to be printed. A document
can have only one
IlvFlow
object, which is created using:
public IlvFlow IlvPrintableDocument.getFlow()
Once the flow is created you can specify its
content using the following methods:
void add(String text)Adds the specified text to the current paragraph.void add(Image image, int alignment)Adds the image to the current line of text using the specified alignment on the line.void add(IlvFlowObject object, int alignment)Adds the object in the current line of text using the specified alignment on the line.
The IlvFlowObject interface allows you to add
virtually any kind of drawing to a flow. Some Rogue Wave® JViews
packages provide classes that implement this interface, so that you
can add a Rogue Wave JViews
Charts component to a flow of text.
You can also control the paragraphs and the
pages of the flow using the following methods:
void newLine()Starts a new paragraph in the flow of text.void newPage()Starts a new page in the flow of text.
Each text added in the flow can be styled
using the following method:
void setTextStyle(IlvFlow.TextStyle style)
By calling this method, you change the current text style that will
be used for the next text added to the flow. The
TextStyle
object allows you to change the colors (background and foreground
color) of the text, the font used, and also the paragraph
alignment.