PdfGraphicsAcroFormFieldAppearance Class

Provides appearance settings used to paint an interactive form field.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Pdf.v20.2.Drawing.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Pdf.Drawing

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Pdf.Drawing, DevExpress.WindowsDesktop.Pdf.Drawing

Declaration

C#

public class PdfGraphicsAcroFormFieldAppearance

VB.NET

Public Class PdfGraphicsAcroFormFieldAppearance

Related API Members

The following members return PdfGraphicsAcroFormFieldAppearance objects:

• PdfGraphicsAcroFormField.Appearance

Example

This example shows how to create a radio button group field and add it to a PDF document using the Document Creation API.

View Example

Program.vb

Imports DevExpress.Pdf
Imports System.Drawing

Namespace AddRadioButtonField
    Friend Class Program
        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String)
            Using processor As New PdfDocumentProcessor()

                ' Create an empty document. 
                processor.CreateEmptyDocument("..\..\Result.pdf")

                ' Create graphics and draw a radio button field.
                Using graphics As PdfGraphics = processor.CreateGraphics()
                    DrawRadioButtonGroupField(graphics)

                    ' Render a page with graphics.
                    processor.RenderNewPage(PdfPaperSize.Letter, graphics)
                End Using
            End Using
        End Sub

        Private Shared Sub DrawRadioButtonGroupField(ByVal graphics As PdfGraphics)

            ' Create a radio group field.
            Dim radioGroup As New PdfGraphicsAcroFormRadioGroupField("First Group")

            ' Add the first radio button and specify its location using a RectangleF object.
            radioGroup.AddButton("button1", New RectangleF(0, 0, 20, 20))

            ' Add the second radio button.
            radioGroup.AddButton("button2", New RectangleF(0, 20, 20, 20))

            ' Specify radio group selected index, style and appearance.  
            radioGroup.SelectedIndex = 1
            radioGroup.ButtonStyle = PdfAcroFormButtonStyle.Circle
            radioGroup.Appearance.BackgroundColor = Color.Aqua
            radioGroup.Appearance.BorderAppearance = New PdfGraphicsAcroFormBorderAppearance() With {.Color = Color.Red, .Width = 3}

            ' Add the field to graphics.
            graphics.AddFormField(radioGroup)
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

Program.cs

using DevExpress.Pdf;
using System.Drawing;

namespace AddRadioButtonField {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            using (PdfDocumentProcessor processor = new PdfDocumentProcessor()) {

                // Create an empty document. 
                processor.CreateEmptyDocument("..\\..\\Result.pdf");

                // Create graphics and draw a radio button field.
                using (PdfGraphics graphics = processor.CreateGraphics()) {
                    DrawRadioButtonGroupField(graphics);

                    // Render a page with graphics.
                    processor.RenderNewPage(PdfPaperSize.Letter, graphics);
                }
            }
        }

        static void DrawRadioButtonGroupField(PdfGraphics graphics) {

            // Create a radio group field.
            PdfGraphicsAcroFormRadioGroupField radioGroup = new PdfGraphicsAcroFormRadioGroupField("First Group");

            // Add the first radio button and specify its location using a RectangleF object.
            radioGroup.AddButton("button1", new RectangleF(0, 0, 20, 20));

            // Add the second radio button.
            radioGroup.AddButton("button2", new RectangleF(0, 20, 20, 20));

            // Specify radio group selected index, style and appearance.  
            radioGroup.SelectedIndex = 1;
            radioGroup.ButtonStyle = PdfAcroFormButtonStyle.Circle;
            radioGroup.Appearance.BackgroundColor = Color.Aqua;
            radioGroup.Appearance.BorderAppearance = new PdfGraphicsAcroFormBorderAppearance() { Color = Color.Red, Width = 3 };

            // Add the field to graphics.
            graphics.AddFormField(radioGroup);
        }
    }
}

Inheritance

Object

PdfGraphicsAcroFormFieldAppearance