Style Class

Represents the formatting properties of a control.

Object Model

Syntax

Visual Basic
C#

public class Style

'Declaration
 
Public Class Style

Remarks

The Style class encapsulates the properties that control the appearance of a control and can be applied to multiple controls to provide a common appearance.

Style properties can be cascaded using inheritance. When creating a new style you can set the values of unset properties to inherit from a parent style. For example, if you have a style named "Normal", you can create a new style named "NormalBold" and set only the Parent property to "Normal" and the FontBold property to true. The remaining properties will be set the same as the parent style.

ActiveReports has a set of built-in styles that are defined in the StyleSheet class.

Example

Paste inside the ReportStart event.

private void rptGrapeCity_ReportStart(object sender, System.EventArgs eArgs)
{
    this.StyleSheet.Add("MyStyle");
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].Alignment = TextAlignment.Center;
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].FontBold = true;
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].FontItalic = false;
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].FontName = "Arial";
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].FontSize = 10.5;
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].FontStrikeThrough = false;
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].FontUnderline = false;
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.YellowGreen;
    Console.WriteLine(this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].Name.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine(this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].Value.ToString());
    this.StyleSheet["MyStyle"].VerticalAlignment = VerticalTextAlignment.Middle;

    Label1.ClassName = "MyStyle";

    if (this.StyleSheet.Count > 10)
    {
        this.StyleSheet.Remove("MyStyle");
    }
}

Paste inside the ReportStart event.

Visual Basic

Private Sub SectionReport1_ReportStart(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.ReportStart
   Me.StyleSheet.Add("MyStyle")
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").Alignment = TextAlignment.Center
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.White
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").FontBold = True
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").FontItalic = False
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").FontName = "Arial"
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").FontSize = 10.5
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").FontStrikeThrough = False
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").FontUnderline = False
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.YellowGreen
   Console.WriteLine(Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").Name.ToString())
   Console.WriteLine(Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").Value.ToString())
   Me.StyleSheet("MyStyle").VerticalAlignment = VerticalTextAlignment.Middle

   Label1.ClassName = "MyStyle"

   If Me.StyleSheet.Count > 10 Then
       Me.StyleSheet.Remove("MyStyle")
   End If
End Sub

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
GrapeCity.ActiveReports.SectionReportModel.Style

Requirements

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

Style Members
GrapeCity.ActiveReports.SectionReportModel Namespace
Label Class
ClassName Property
StyleSheet Class

How To

Use External Style Sheets