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Author:  Orestone [ Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:24 am ]
Post subject:  Automatic expanding TextFrame
Is it possible to make a TextFrame increase its Height to contain its content?

for example the following code snippet creates a TextFrame with a border but the borders only 'contain' lines 1 to 6. Lines 7 to 9 fall outside the borders.

Code:
        private void AddLeftBox(Section section)
        {
            var frame = section.AddTextFrame();
            frame.Width = new Unit(80.0, UnitType.Millimeter);
            frame.LineFormat.Width = Unit.FromPoint(0.5);
            for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
                frame.AddParagraph("Line " + i);
        }


Failing an automatic way of doing this is there a way to measure the contents of the TextFrame after they have been added and then retrospectively set the TextFrame.Height property[/code]
Author:  Thomas Hoevel [ Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:52 am ]
Post subject: 
Workaround: add a table to the textframe and set the border of the table.
Author:  Orestone [ Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:46 pm ]
Post subject: 
Thanks Thomas.

I was hoping not to clutter the structure of the document like that but I shall take your suggestion on board.

Is this unimplemented functionality/feature in MigraDoc or is there a reason why the TextFrame behaves that way?

Cheers
Simon
Author:  Orestone [ Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:40 am ]
Post subject: 
Just to add closure for others' benefit - this is an acceptable workaround for my situation :D

Code:
private void AddLeftBox(Section section)
{
    var frame = section.AddTextFrame();

    Table table = frame.AddTable();
    table.Borders.Width = 0.5;
    table.LeftPadding = 0;

    var column = table.AddColumn();
    column.Width = Unit.FromMillimeter(80);

    Row row = table.AddRow();

    for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
        row[0].AddParagraph("Line " + i);
}


The line
Code:
table.LeftPadding = 0;
ensures that the table is aligned with other paragraph borders in my document. You may not need this in other applications (as appropriate).

Thanks again
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