Topic: How to specify a Font for the text in a table?

[waterharbin]

Hi.
With Kean's blog, I have learned how to create an AutoCAD table. But I have a further step to go. I want the font for all the texts to be a specified font(for example, Times New Roman) under any circumstance. How to do this?

These are my codes at the moment.

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1. [CommandMethod("InsertTable")]
2.         public void InsertNow()
3.         {
4.             Document doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
5.             Database db = doc.Database;
6.             Editor ed = doc.Editor;
7.  
8.             PromptPointResult pr = ed.GetPoint("\nEnter table insertion point: ");
9.             if (pr.Status != PromptStatus.OK) return;
10.            
11.             using (Transaction trans = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
12.             {
13.                 CreateTable( pr.Value);
14.                 trans.Commit();
15.             }                      
16.         }
17.         public void CreateTable(Point3d ptInsert)
18.         {                      
19.             Table tb = new Table();
20.             tb.NumRows = 5;
21.             tb.NumColumns = 3;
22.             tb.SetRowHeight(100);
23.             tb.SetColumnWidth(500);
24.             tb.Position = ptInsert;
25.  
26.             // 定义一个数组，表示要插入到表格中的内容
27.             string[,] str = new string[5, 3];
28.             str[0, 0] = "Part No.";            str[0, 1] = "Name ";
29.             str[0, 2] = "Material ";            str[1, 0] = "1876-1";
30.             str[1, 1] = "Flange";            str[1, 2] = "Perspex";
31.             str[2, 0] = "0985-4";            str[2, 1] = "Bolt";
32.             str[2, 2] = "Steel";            str[3, 0] = "3476-K";
33.             str[3, 1] = "Tile";            str[3, 2] = "Ceramic";
34.             str[4, 0] = "8734-3";            str[4, 1] = "Kean";            str[4, 2] = "Mostly water";
35.  
36.             //通过循环把内容插入到表格中
37.             for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
38.             {
39.                 for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
40.                 {
41.                     tb.SetTextHeight(i, j, 50);
42.                     tb.SetTextString(i, j, str[i, j]);
43.                     tb.SetAlignment(i, j, CellAlignment.MiddleCenter);
44.                 }
45.             }
46.  
47.             AppendEntity(tb);
48.         }
49.         public static ObjectId AppendEntity(Entity ent)
50.         {
51.             Database db = HostApplicationServices.WorkingDatabase;
52.             ObjectId entId;
53.             using (Transaction trans = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
54.             {
55.                 BlockTable bt = (BlockTable)trans.GetObject(db.BlockTableId, OpenMode.ForRead);
56.                 BlockTableRecord btr = (BlockTableRecord)trans.GetObject(bt[BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace], OpenMode.ForWrite);
57.                 entId = btr.AppendEntity(ent);
58.                 trans.AddNewlyCreatedDBObject(ent, true);
59.                 trans.Commit();
60.             }
61.             return entId;
62.         }
63.  

[Kerry]

Does this help ?

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=26384.0

[waterharbin]

Hi, Kerry.
In your post, you suggested to re-write the  AssertOrMakeTextStyle( )   to return the ID of the Record. So, this is what I do:

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     public ObjectId AssertOrMakeTextStyleUpdated(string styleName, string styleFileName)
        {
            Document doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
            Database db = doc.Database;

            ObjectId recordId;

            using (Transaction tr = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
            {
                TextStyleTable tsTable = tr.GetObject(db.TextStyleTableId, OpenMode.ForWrite) as TextStyleTable;
                TextStyleTableRecord tsTableRecord = new TextStyleTableRecord();
                if (!tsTable.Has(styleName))
                {
                    tsTableRecord.Name = styleName;
                    tsTableRecord.FileName = styleFileName;
                    tsTableRecord.IsVertical = false;
                    tsTableRecord.TextSize = 0.0;

                    tsTable.Add(tsTableRecord);
                    tr.AddNewlyCreatedDBObject(tsTableRecord, true);
                }
                else
                    tsTableRecord = tr.GetObject(tsTable[styleName], OpenMode.ForRead) as TextStyleTableRecord;
                recordId = tsTableRecord.ObjectId;
                tr.Commit();               
            }

            return recordId;
        }

Then I use it to define the table:

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string txtStyleName = "kbubsComicTextStyle";
            string txtFileName = "Comic.ttf";

            Table tb = new Table();
            tb.NumRows = 5;
            tb.NumColumns = 3;
            tb.SetRowHeight(100);
            tb.SetColumnWidth(500);
            tb.Position = ptInsert;
            [color=red]tb.SetTextStyle(AssertOrMakeTextStyleUpdated(txtStyleName, txtFileName), 0);[/color]
But it seems that it does not work? Where is the problem?

[Micaletti]

You didn't set a font.

tsTableRecord.Font = new FontDescriptor("Romans", false, false, null, null)

[fixo]

This should work

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TextStyleTable ttb = (TextStyleTable)trx.GetObject(db.TextStyleTableId, OpenMode.ForRead);
                ObjectId txsId = ObjectId.Null;
                if (ttb.Has("MyCoolTextStyle"))
                {
                    txsId = ttb["MyCoolTextStyle"];
                    tbl.Cells[0, 0].TextStyleId = txsId;// <-- A2010
                }Another way is to set mtext formatted string like
these:

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\fCalibri|c0|b0|i1|p34;\C1;Table Title
\fComic Sans MS|c0|b0|i1|p34;\C1;Table Title