interactive/form_multiline_textfield

 * Form multiline text field:

 * Create a form field of type "textfield" for entering multiline text

 *

 * Create the "comment" text field for entering multiline text which is not

 * allowed to scroll out of the window. Define the following field properties:

 * default text, border and fill color, tooltip, tab order position.

 *

 * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7

 * Required data: none

 */

package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.interactive;

import com.pdflib.pdflib;

import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;

public class form_multiline_textfield

{

    public static void main (String argv[])

    {

    /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary */

    String searchpath = "../input";

    String outfile = "form_multiline_textfield.pdf";

    String title = "Form Multiline Textfield";

    pdflib p = null;

    String optlist;

    int font;

    double width=200, height=80;

    double llx = 30, lly = 500;

    try {

        p = new pdflib();

        /* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */

        p.set_parameter("errorpolicy", "return");

        p.set_parameter("SearchPath", searchpath);

        if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)

            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

        p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");

        p.set_info("Title", title + " $Revision: 1.2 $");

        font = p.load_font("Helvetica", "winansi", "");

        if (font == -1)

            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

        /* Start page */

        p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, " width=a4.width height=a4.height");

        /* Create a multiline text field called "comment" (multiline=true).

         * Don't allow the text to be scrolled out of the field

         * (scrollable=false).

         * Define a tooltip (tooltip={Enter a comment}).

         */

        optlist = "backgroundcolor={rgb 0.95 0.95 1}  bordercolor={gray 0} " +

            "currentvalue={Enter a multiline comment} multiline=true " +

            "scrollable=false tooltip={Enter a comment} font =" + font +

            " fontsize=14";

        p.create_field(llx, lly, llx + width, lly + height, "comment",

            "textfield", optlist);

        p.setfont(font, 12);

        p.fit_textline("Multiline text field; a tooltip is provided.",

            llx, lly-=30, "");

        p.fit_textline("Text is not allowed to scroll out of the window.",

            llx, lly-=20, "");

        p.end_page_ext("");

        p.end_document("");

        } catch (PDFlibException e) {

            System.err.print("PDFlib exception occurred:\n");

            System.err.print("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() +

                ": " + e.get_errmsg() + "\n");

        } catch (Exception e) {

            System.err.println(e.getMessage());

        } finally {

            if (p != null) {

                p.delete();

            }

        }

    }

}