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How to: Modify Brick Appearance using Styles
This tutorial provides you with information on how to modify brick appearance using styles.
Bricks appearance can be set up in several ways. The most advanced approach is to use the BrickStyle class. This class provides all graphical properties, which are required to draw bricks of any type. Different class instances can be created to represent different styles used in a report. Moreover, different brick styles can be assigned to bricks of different types. Then, all modifications done with a specific BrickStyle apply to all bricks drawn with this style. This simplifies the customization of brick groups drawn with a specific style.
The following code arranges text bricks in three columns. Each column has its own BrickStyle. All style settings are defined in the BrickStyle's constructors. Text bricks are created via the BrickGraphics.DrawString method. This method does not affect graphical properties of the TextBrick already defined via the BrickStyle.
This example illustrates how to change the brick appearance using the BrickStyle object.
| C# |
using DevExpress.XtraPrinting;
printingSystem1.Begin();
BrickStyle column_style1 = new BrickStyle(BorderSide.Left | BorderSide.Bottom | BorderSide.Top, 2,
Color.Gold, Color.Navy, Color.DodgerBlue, new Font("Arial", 6, FontStyle.Bold |
FontStyle.Italic), new BrickStringFormat(StringAlignment.Near, StringAlignment.Near));
BrickStyle column_style2 = new BrickStyle(BorderSide.Top | BorderSide.Bottom, 2,
Color.Navy, Color.DodgerBlue, Color.Gold, new Font("Arial", 6, FontStyle.Bold |
FontStyle.Italic), new BrickStringFormat(StringAlignment.Center, StringAlignment.Center));
BrickStyle column_style3 = new BrickStyle(BorderSide.Right | BorderSide.Bottom | BorderSide.Top, 2,
Color.DodgerBlue, Color.Gold, Color.Navy, new Font("Arial", 6, FontStyle.Bold |
FontStyle.Italic), new BrickStringFormat(StringAlignment.Far, StringAlignment.Far));
BrickGraphics gr = printingSystem1.Graph;
gr.Modifier = BrickModifier.Detail;
string s = "XtraPrinting Library";
TextBrick t_brick;
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
t_brick = gr.DrawString(s, new RectangleF(0, 20 * i, 100, 20));
t_brick.Style = column_style1;
}
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
t_brick = gr.DrawString(s, new RectangleF(100, 20 * i, 100, 20));
t_brick.Style = column_style2;
}
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
t_brick = gr.DrawString(s, new RectangleF(200, 20 * i, 100, 20));
t_brick.Style = column_style3;
}
printingSystem1.End();
printingSystem1.PreviewFormEx.Show();
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| VB |
Imports DevExpress.XtraPrinting
printingSystem1.Begin()
Dim column_style1 As BrickStyle = New BrickStyle(BorderSide.Left Or BorderSide.Bottom Or _
BorderSide.Top, 2, Color.Gold, Color.Navy, Color.DodgerBlue, New Font("Arial", 6, _
FontStyle.Bold Or FontStyle.Italic), New BrickStringFormat(StringAlignment.Near, _
StringAlignment.Near))
Dim column_style2 As BrickStyle = New BrickStyle(BorderSide.Top Or BorderSide.Bottom, 2, _
Color.Navy, Color.DodgerBlue, Color.Gold, New Font("Arial", 6, FontStyle.Bold Or _
FontStyle.Italic), New BrickStringFormat(StringAlignment.Center, StringAlignment.Center))
Dim column_style3 As BrickStyle = New BrickStyle(BorderSide.Right Or BorderSide.Bottom Or _
BorderSide.Top, 2, Color.DodgerBlue, Color.Gold, Color.Navy, New Font("Arial", 6, _
FontStyle.Bold Or FontStyle.Italic), New BrickStringFormat(StringAlignment.Far, _
StringAlignment.Far))
Dim gr As BrickGraphics = printingSystem1.Graph
gr.Modifier = BrickModifier.Detail
Dim s As String = "XtraPrinting Library"
Dim t_brick As TextBrick
For i As Integer = 0 To 2
t_brick = gr.DrawString(s, New RectangleF(0, 20*i, 100, 20))
t_brick.Style = column_style1
Next i
For i As Integer = 0 To 2
t_brick = gr.DrawString(s, New RectangleF(100, 20*i, 100, 20))
t_brick.Style = column_style2
Next i
For i As Integer = 0 To 2
t_brick = gr.DrawString(s, New RectangleF(200, 20*i, 100, 20))
t_brick.Style = column_style3
Next i
printingSystem1.End()
printingSystem1.PreviewFormEx.Show()
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The image shown below illustrates the resulting report's preview:
 
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