Displaying a Frame Around a Paragraph
The ParagraphFormat class in TX Text Control supports adding visible frames around paragraphs. Developers configure the border type with Frame, inner spacing with FrameDistance, line thickness with FrameLineWidth, and appearance with FrameStyle for single or double line rendering.
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.
Dim myFrameStyle As New TXTextControl.ParagraphFormat
myFrameStyle.Frame = TXTextControl.Frame.Box
myFrameStyle.FrameDistance = 200
myFrameStyle.FrameLineWidth = 50
myFrameStyle.FrameStyle = TXTextControl.FrameStyle.Double
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