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indicates that the line will go from the top corner to the bottom corner. The default
value for the
direction
attribute is
TopDown
.
The following example demonstrates the use of the
<line>
element:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE jasperReport PUBLIC "//JasperReports//DTD Report Design//EN"
"http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/dtds/jasperreport.dtd">
<jasperReport name="LineDemoReport">
<detail>
<band height="100">
<line>
<reportElement x="0" y="0" width="555" height="25"/>
</line>
<line direction="BottomUp">
<reportElement x="0" y="26" width="555" height="25"/>
</line>
<line>
<reportElement x="0" y="50" width="0" height="25"/>
</line>
<line>
<reportElement x="0" y="75" width="555" height="0"/>
</line>
</band>
</detail>
</jasperReport>
After compiling the JRXML template and filling the resulting binary Jasper template,
we should get a report that looks like the following:
As can be seen in the example, the default value for
direction
is
TopDown
.
Moreover, since there is no way to directly create a vertical or horizontal line, one
way that we can achieve this is by setting either the width (for vertical lines) or
height �for horizontal lines) of the
<reportElement>
sub-element of
<line>
, to be
0
. Notice how the lines go from one corner of the area defined by
<reportElement>
to the other. Altering the value of the
direction
attribute allows us to define which
way the line will slope.
