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PdfTextWidgetFacade Class

Contains properties used to change the text field’s widget annotation without access to its inner structure.

Namespace: DevExpress.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Pdf.v24.2.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Pdf.Core

#Declaration

public class PdfTextWidgetFacade :
    PdfWidgetFacade

#Remarks

A widget annotation contains a form field’s appearance and display properties. One field can be related to multiple widget annotations.

Use the Widgets property to get the form field widgets settings.

using (PdfDocumentProcessor pdfDocumentProcessor = new PdfDocumentProcessor())
{
    pdfDocumentProcessor.LoadDocument("Documents//FormDemo.pdf");

    PdfDocumentFacade documentFacade = pdfDocumentProcessor.DocumentFacade;
    PdfAcroFormFacade acroForm = documentFacade.AcroForm;

    //Change all text form fields' color settings:
    var fields = acroForm.GetFields();
    foreach (PdfFormFieldFacade field in fields)
    {
        if (field.Type == PdfFormFieldType.Text)
        {
            ChangeFormFieldColor(field);
        }
    }
}

  private static void ChangeFormFieldColor(PdfFormFieldFacade field)
  {
      foreach (PdfWidgetFacade pdfWidget in field)
      {
          //Change color and border settings
          pdfWidget.BorderWidth = 1;
          pdfWidget.BackgroundColor = new PdfRGBColor(0.81, 0.81, 0.81);
          pdfWidget.BorderColor = new PdfRGBColor(0.47, 0.44, 0.67);
          pdfWidget.FontColor = new PdfRGBColor(0.34, 0.25, 0.36);

          //Change border style:
          pdfWidget.BorderStyle = PdfBorderStyle.Underline;
      }
  }

#Inheritance

Object
PdfWidgetFacade
PdfTextWidgetFacade
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