Inserting shapes into table cells

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Hi,
I am having difficulty placing shapes into a table cell.It always gets inserted outside the table. The attached is what I am trying to achieve using Aspose Word (the square shape within a table cell). Any direction would help.
Thanks and Regards,
S

2

Hi

Thanks for your request. Could you please provide me your code, template document, current output and expected output? I will investigate the issue and provide you more information.
Best regards.

3

Hi Alexey,
Here’s what I have tried…

Aspose.Words.Document doc = new Aspose.Words.Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.CellFormat.Borders.LineStyle = LineStyle.Single;
builder.CellFormat.Borders.Color = Color.Red;
builder.RowFormat.LeftIndent = 100;
// etc...
// Insert some table
for (int i = 0; i <5; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j <5; j++)
    {
        Aspose.Words.Drawing.Shape shape = new Aspose.Words.Drawing.Shape(doc, ShapeType.Rectangle);
        shape.AnchorLocked = true;
        shape.Height = 20;
        shape.Width = 20;
        builder.InsertCell();
        Aspose.Words.Paragraph par = new Aspose.Words.Paragraph(doc);
        shape.AppendChild(par);
        builder.MoveTo(par);
        // Insert shape into the document
        doc.FirstSection.Body.FirstParagraph.AppendChild(shape);
    }
    builder.EndRow();
}
builder.EndTable();
doc.Save("C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\Report Templates\\test.doc");

I am also trying to do the same using Bookmarks but there is no method which inserts shape?
Tks,
S

4

Hi

Thank you for additional information. The problem occurs because you always insert the shape into the first paragraph of the document. Here is line from your code:

// Insert shape into the document
doc.FirstSection.Body.FirstParagraph.AppendChild(shape);

I think you should use code like the following:

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.CellFormat.Borders.LineStyle = LineStyle.Single;
builder.CellFormat.Borders.Color = Color.Red;
builder.RowFormat.LeftIndent = 100;
// etc...
// Insert some table
for (int i = 0; i <5; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j <5; j++)
    {
        Shape shape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Rectangle);
        shape.AnchorLocked = true;
        shape.Height = 20;
        shape.Width = 20;
        builder.InsertCell();
        builder.InsertNode(shape);
    }
    builder.EndRow();
}
builder.EndTable();
doc.Save(@"Test185\out.doc");

Hope this helps.
Best regards.

5

Thank-you Alexey, That was very useful.

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Hi Alexey,
Am having an issue with having to centre align the shapes horizontally on table cells. Attached is what I am trying to achieve and below is the code. Could you please suggest changes.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
Table tblTemp = builder.StartTable();
builder.CellFormat.Borders.LineStyle = LineStyle.Dot;
builder.CellFormat.Borders.Color = Color.LightGray;
builder.CellFormat.TopPadding = 1.5;
builder.CellFormat.BottomPadding = 1.5;
builder.RowFormat.Height = 40;
builder.RowFormat.Alignment = RowAlignment.Center;
for (int i = 0; i <2; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j <5; j++)
    {
        builder.InsertCell();
        if (i == 0 && j == 0)
        {
            builder.Write("Leadership");
        }
        if (i == 1 && j == 0)
        {
            builder.Write("Team Fit");
        }
        if (i == 0 && j == 4)
        {
            Shape shape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Rectangle);
            shape.FillColor = Color.SeaGreen;
            shape.ZOrder = 1000;
            shape.AnchorLocked = true;
            shape.Height = 20;
            shape.Width = 20;
            shape.RelativeHorizontalPosition = RelativeHorizontalPosition.Column;
            shape.HorizontalAlignment = Aspose.Words.Drawing.HorizontalAlignment.Center;
            shape.RelativeVerticalPosition = RelativeVerticalPosition.Default;
            shape.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center;
            builder.InsertNode(shape);
        }
        if (j == 1)
        {
            Shape shpLine = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Line);
            shpLine.Width = 250;
            builder.InsertNode(shpLine);
        }
    }
    builder.EndRow();
}
builder.EndTable();
foreach(Row row in tblTemp.Rows)
{
    foreach(Cell cell in row.Cells)
    {
        cell.CellFormat.VerticalAlignment = CellVerticalAlignment.Center;
        if (cell.IsFirstCell)
        {
            cell.CellFormat.Width = 120.00;
            cell.CellFormat.WrapText = true;
        }
        else
        {
            cell.CellFormat.Width = 67.00;
            cell.CellFormat.WrapText = false;
            cell.CellFormat.FitText = false;
        }
    }
}
doc.Save("C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\Report Templates\\test.doc");
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Hi

Thanks for your request. I think you can specify Top position, in this case. Please see the following code:

if (i == 0 && j == 4)
{
    Shape shape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Rectangle);
    shape.FillColor = Color.SeaGreen;
    shape.ZOrder = 1000;
    shape.AnchorLocked = true;
    shape.Height = 20;
    shape.Width = 20;
    shape.RelativeHorizontalPosition = RelativeHorizontalPosition.Column;
    shape.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
    shape.Top = (builder.RowFormat.Height / 2) - (shape.Height / 2);
    builder.InsertNode(shape);
}
if (j == 1)
{
    Shape shpLine = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.Line);
    shpLine.Top = builder.RowFormat.Height / 2;
    shpLine.Width = 250;
    builder.InsertNode(shpLine);
}

Hope this helps.
Best regards.

8

Perfect, Thanks a lot Alexey for the quick and accurate reply

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