Conditional Text Sizing?

[jbuberel]

 In our JRXML templates, we display US city names. The text field uses a fixed font size (11pt) to render the text.

However, there are times when we run into very long city names (ex: "Fredericksburg") that are too long to fit in the text box. So instead, I would like to use an expression for the size:

<font size="11"/>

would instead be:

<font size="$F{city}.length() > 10 ? 9 : 11" />

Or in other words: If the length of the city field is greater than 10 characters, use font size 9. Else, use font size 11.

I am going to experiment with this later this evening, but thought I'd ask if others had run into this before and had come up with a good solution.

Thanks,

jason

[Teodor Danciu]

Hi,

 

This is possible with markup text fields (formely known as styled text fields).

See the /demo/samples/markup and /demo/samples/styledtext samples provided with the JR project.

 

http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/sample.reference/markup/index.html#markup

http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/sample.reference/styledtext/index.html#styledtext

 

I hope this helps.

Teodor