Summary Properties dialog

The dialog appears when you right-click a summary field and select Properties from the shortcut menu. It helps you to specify the properties of the summary field and contains the following tabs:

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays this help document.

General tab

This tab shows some general information of the summary field. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the display name of the summary field.

Width

Specifies the width of the summary field.

Format

Specifies the format of the summary field.

Height

Specifies the height of the summary field.

Top Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the summary field and its top border.

Bottom Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the summary field and its bottom border.

Left Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the summary field and its left border.

Right Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the summary field and its right border.

Background

Specifies the background color of the summary field.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Foreground

Specifies the foreground color of the summary field.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB.

Font tab

This tab shows the font-related information of the summary field. See the tab.

Font

Specifies the font face of the text.

Size

Specifies the font size of the text.

Horizontal Alignment

Specifies the horizontal alignment mode of the text in the summary field.

Vertical Alignment

Specifies the vertical alignment mode of the text in the summary field.

Bold

Specifies whether to make the text bold or not.

Underline

Specifies whether the text will be underlined or not.

Strikethrough

Specifies whether or not to attach a strikeout line to the text.

Italic

Specifies whether to make the text italic or not.

Autofit

Specifies whether or not to automatically adjust the width of the summary field.

Word Wrap

Specifies whether or not to wrap the text to the summary field width.

Ignore HTML Tag

If this option is unchecked, JReport will parse HTML tag elements in the field value while the report is to be saved as an HTML file; or the field value will appear in the HTML file the same as that in Web Report Studio (HTML tag elements in the field value, if any, will not be parsed).

Border tab

This tab shows information about borders of the summary field. See the tab.

Color

Specifies the border color.

Width

Specifies the border width.

Top Line

Specifies the style of the top border line.

Bottom Line

Specifies the style of the bottom border line.

Left Line

Specifies the style of the left border line.

Right Line

Specifies the style of the right border line.

Shadow

Specifies whether the borders will have a shadow effect or not.

Shadow Color

Specifies the color of the border shadow.