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LinkBase.CreateDetailArea Event

Occurs when a detail section of the document is being generated.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraPrinting

Assembly: DevExpress.Printing.v23.2.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Printing.Core

Declaration

public virtual event CreateAreaEventHandler CreateDetailArea

Event Data

The CreateDetailArea event's data class is CreateAreaEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property Description
Graph Gets a BrickGraphics object used to draw in the current report.

Remarks

Handle the CreateDetailArea event to customize the detail section of a document.

The document creation events occur in the following order:

Note

This order may be different in descendants of the LinkBase class.

For more information on handling events, see Events and Delegates in MSDN.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to write a LinkBase.CreateDetailArea event handler.

CreateDetailArea event

void link1_CreateDetailArea(object sender, CreateAreaEventArgs e) {
    e.Graph.StringFormat = e.Graph.StringFormat.ChangeAlignment(StringAlignment.Near);
    e.Graph.StringFormat = e.Graph.StringFormat.ChangeLineAlignment(StringAlignment.Center);
    e.Graph.Font = new DXFont("Tahoma", 16, DXFontStyle.Bold | DXFontStyle.Italic);
    e.Graph.BackColor = Color.DarkSeaGreen;
    e.Graph.BorderColor = Color.Black;
    Rectangle r;

    for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
        r = new Rectangle(0, i * 50, 150, 50);
        e.Graph.DrawString("Hello World!", Color.Gold, r, BorderSide.All);
    }
}

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