Today, I am going to show you how to display a frame around a paragraph. Users often request this as a new feature for a future version as they are not aware that this is already implemented in TX Text Control. They also tried to simulate it using tables (which is possible as well).
A frame can be specified in the ParagraphFormat class using 4 different settings:
Frame: This sets the frame around a paragraph. You could specify whether the frame is a box or just a line at the left, right, bottom or top of the paragraph. Additionally, the Frame property offers a possibility to specify a merged box. In this case, the paragraph has got a complete frame. If the following paragraph has a frame too, the frames are merged to a single boxed frame.
FrameDistance: Sets the distance between the text and the frame.
FrameLineWidth: Sets the width of the frame lines.
FrameStyle: Specified whether the frame is displayed as a single or a double line.
The following sample code inserts a double lined frame to the current paragraph.
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myFrameStyle.Frame = TXTextControl.Frame.Box
myFrameStyle.FrameDistance = 200
myFrameStyle.FrameLineWidth = 50
myFrameStyle.FrameStyle = TXTextControl.FrameStyle.Double
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Thanks for the tip off. That is a nice feature. I have already added the search results of XML, GIF and PDF to my RSS client.Good idea. I like that. It is *very* useful to get search results in my feed browser.When you save the output in rtf format and open in Tx Text Control Words application it works fine. But attempting to open the
rtf file in Microsoft word the paragraph frame is set to right line and bottom line even if you didnt set the bottom line.
I am not sure if this is a bug or I am missing something.