Working with Forms from Code
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First, create action links:
Next, create
After that, create action methods. First, add
Then, add
Next, add
Finally, add
First, create action links:
@Html.ActionLink("Creating a Form", "Create")
@Html.ActionLink("Loading a Form", "Load")
@Html.ActionLink("Saving a Form", "Save")
@Html.ActionLink("Exporting a Form to PDF", "Export")
Next, create
StiForm object:
private static StiForm Form = new StiForm();After that, create action methods. First, add
Create method:
public IActionResult Create()
{
var textBox = new StiTextBoxElement
{
Label = "Example Text Box",
Geometry = new StiRectangleGeometry(0, 0, 400, 100).WithMaxWidth(400).WithMaxHeight(100),
Text = "Initial Text",
};
var page = new StiFormPage();
page.Elements.Add(textBox);
HomeController.Form = new StiForm();
HomeController.Form.Pages.Add(page);
ViewBag.FormMessage = "A new Form has been created.";
return View("Index");
}Then, add
Load method:
public IActionResult Load()
{
var mrtFileName = "Forms\\Order.mrt";
HomeController.Form = new StiForm();
HomeController.Form.Load(mrtFileName);
ViewBag.FormMessage = $"A new Form has been loaded from a file '{mrtFileName}'";
return View("Index");
}Next, add
Save method:
public IActionResult Save()
{
var mrtFileName = $"Forms\\Form_{DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd_HH.mm.ss")}.mrt";
HomeController.Form.Save(mrtFileName);
ViewBag.FormMessage = $"The Form has been saved to a file '{mrtFileName}'";
return View("Index");
}Finally, add
Export method:
public IActionResult Export()
{
var exporter = new StiPdfExporter(new StiPdfExporterSettings
{
UsePdfA = false,
ReadOnly = false,
});
var pdfFileBytes = exporter.ExportForm(HomeController.Form);
var pdfFileName = $"Forms\\Form_{DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd_HH.mm.ss")}.pdf";
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(pdfFileName, pdfFileBytes);
ViewBag.FormMessage = $"The Form has been saved to a file '{pdfFileName}'";
return View("Index");
}