[iText-questions] Nested Tables

[Geraldo Xexeo]

Title: Message

I am having different problems with nested tables.

 

QUESTION 1:

I think that Example 13 of chapter five has a wrong result.

Check Chap0513.pdf and you will see that cell 0,3 is divided in two, while the table was only inserted in cell 1,3.

 

QUESTION 2: 

Also, example 13 uses complete(), but example 17 does not use complete(). I was the guy that complained on deep nested tables to Paulo (Sourceforge BUG 513961), who told me he was going to document complete(), or, at least, put it on the examples. However, from the code of Table.java, understand that complete() is not needed anymore, since a table is "completed" just after it is inserted (Table.java line 580).

 

QUESTION 3:

The point, that I will re-create with a quasi-minimal program, is that a deep inserted table seems to be creating rows in its container table, instead of keeping itself inside a cell.

 

Ok, here is my program example. It names all cells that I created. When printing, however, new rows appear between B1 and B2.

I am using complete(), but it makes no difference.

 

------------------JAVA CODE - file Misbehavior.java ------------------------------------------------

import java.awt.Point;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.lowagie.text.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

 

public class Misbehavior
{
 public static void main(String[] args)
 {
        System.out.println("A simple misbehavior - nested tables");
        // step 1: creation of a document-object
        Document document = new Document();
        try {
            // step 2:
            // we create a writer that listens to the document
            // and directs a PDF-stream to a file
            PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("ERRO.pdf"));
            // step 3: we open the document
            document.open();
            // step 4: we create a table and add it to the document
            Table secondTable = new Table(7,7);
            for(int i=0;i<7;i++) {
              for(int j=0;j<7;j++) {
                  secondTable.addCell("A "+i+"."+j, new Point(i,j));
              }
            }
           
            Table aThirdTable = new Table(5,5);   
            for(int i=0;i<5;i++) {
              for(int j=0;j<5;j++) {
                if (i==1 && j==3) {
                  aThirdTable.insertTable(secondTable, new Point(i,j));
                } else
                 aThirdTable.addCell("B "+i+"."+j, new Point(i,j));
              }
            }
            aThirdTable.complete();

 

            Table aTable = new Table(3,3);   
            for(int i=0;i<3;i++) {
              for(int j=0;j<3;j++) {
                if (i==1 && j==2) {
                 aTable.insertTable(aThirdTable, new Point(i,j));
                } else
                 aTable.addCell("C "+i+"."+j, new Point(i,j));
               }
            }
            aTable.complete();
 

 

            document.add(aTable);          
        }
        catch(DocumentException de) {
            System.err.println(de.getMessage());
        }
        catch(IOException ioe) {
            System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
        }
        // step 5: we close the document
        document.close();
    }
 }

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