[RESOLVED] Create tables with AlivePDF

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This is my code in Flash, not Flex. Hope it helps anyone else struggling to get started. I'm using AlivePDF 0.1.5RC.

Grid feature in AlivePDF is introduced in this page: http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/?p=25

In this project, I used DataGrid to make the table inside Flash, then passed it into another PDF generation AS. So you should also read about DataGrid and try it out:
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/...=00000436.html
(wait for the page to load, then click "Creating an application with the DataGrid" - navigate to creating with Actionscript and start reading).

I also used this thread to learn to make columns in AlivePDF (http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=158&f=2421&t=302275)

I make a separate PDF Generation file called PDFGeneration.as:

package 
{
    import flash.utils.ByteArray;
    import flash.net.FileReference;
    
    import org.alivepdf.pdf.PDF;
    import org.alivepdf.layout.Orientation;
    import org.alivepdf.layout.Unit;
    import org.alivepdf.layout.Size;
    import org.alivepdf.layout.Align;
    import org.alivepdf.pages.Page;
    import org.alivepdf.fonts.FontFamily;
    import org.alivepdf.display.Display;
    import org.alivepdf.fonts.Style;
    import org.alivepdf.fonts.IFont;
    import org.alivepdf.colors.RGBColor;
    import org.alivepdf.saving.Method;
    import org.alivepdf.fonts.CoreFont;
    import org.alivepdf.data.Grid;
    import org.alivepdf.data.GridColumn;
    import org.alivepdf.pages.Page;
    
    import fl.controls.DataGrid;
    import fl.data.DataProvider;
        
    public class PDFGeneration
    {
        private var myPDF:PDF;
        //choose your font here     
        private var boldFont:IFont = new CoreFont(FontFamily.HELVETICA_BOLD);
        private var normalFont:IFont = new CoreFont(FontFamily.ARIAL);
        
        
        //table stuff
        private var grid:Grid;
        public var pdfDataGrid:DataGrid = new DataGrid(); //datagrid to be passed into here
        
        //you need to set up headerText so if your grid go over board, the header will
        //repeat in the next page. Option to repeat header can be switched in addGrid().
        private var cT:GridColumn = new GridColumn("t", "t", 22, "L", "L");
        private var cAx:GridColumn = new GridColumn("Ax", "Ax", 22, "L", "L");
        private var cAy:GridColumn = new GridColumn("Ay", "Ay", 22, "L", "L");
        private var cVx:GridColumn = new GridColumn("Vx", "Vx", 22, "L", "L");
        private var cVy:GridColumn = new GridColumn("Vy", "Vy", 22, "L", "L");
        private var cX:GridColumn = new GridColumn("X", "X", 22, "L", "L");
        private var cY:GridColumn = new GridColumn("Y", "Y", 22, "L", "L");
        private var columns:Array = new Array(cT, cAx, cAy, cVx, cVy, cX, cY);
        
        public function PDFGeneration()
        {
            //nothing here
        }

        private function roundX(toBeRounded:Number, decimalPlaces:Number):Number
        {
            return (int(toBeRounded * Math.pow(10,decimalPlaces)) / Math.pow(10,decimalPlaces));
        }
        
        public function savePDF():void
        {
            myPDF = new PDF(Orientation.PORTRAIT,Unit.MM, Size.A4);
            
            myPDF.setDisplayMode(Display.FULL_WIDTH);
            
            //page 1 starts the table of results
            myPDF.addPage();
            grid = new Grid(pdfDataGrid.dataProvider.toArray(), 271, 265, new RGBColor(0xCCCCCC), new RGBColor(0xFFFFFF), false, new RGBColor(0x0), 1, "0 j");
            grid.columns = columns;
            
            myPDF.setFont(normalFont, 10, false);
            myPDF.textStyle(new RGBColor(0x0), 1);
            myPDF.addGrid(grid, 12.7, 18.7);
            
            //save PDF
            var bytes:ByteArray = myPDF.save(Method.LOCAL);
            var f:FileReference = new FileReference();
            f.save(bytes, "SimulationResults.pdf");
        }
    }
}

Main.as exportPDF sections

package 
{
    //other classes was imported here
    
    import fl.controls.DataGrid; //you need to add DataGrid component to the library before using this class
    import fl.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridColumn;
    import fl.data.DataProvider;
    
    import PDFGeneration;
    
    public class Main extends MovieClip
    {
        //pdf variables
        public var exportPDF:PDFGeneration = new PDFGeneration();
        
        //variables that work and stay here
        private var values_array:Array = new Array(); //represents the data provider array
        private var myGc:DataGridColumn = new DataGridColumn();
        private var myDg:DataGrid = new DataGrid();

        //variables to calculate values like aX, aY was declared here

        private var myTimerNo:Timer;

        private var aniNo:ProjectileNo = new ProjectileNo();
        
    //export PDF and pass in datagrid variable
        private function export(e:MouseEvent):void
        {
            exportPDF.pdfDataGrid = myDg;
            
            exportPDF.savePDF();
        }
    //dataGrid function
        private function addSheet():void //just a visual datagrid on the SWF for cross-checking
        {
            myDg.columns = ["t", "Ax", "Ay", "Vx", "Vy", "X", "Y"];
            myDg.move(596, 35.75);
            myDg.dataProvider = new DataProvider(values_array);
            myDg.rowCount = myDg.length;
            myDg.setSize(389, 307);
            addChild(myDg);
        }

        private function startSimNo(e:TimerEvent):void //just a list of values
        {
            aX = 0;
            aY = -9.8;

            timePassed = e.target.currentCount * interval;
            myDot.x = 0;
            myDot.y = 0;
            container_mc.addChild(myDot);

            xPos = vX * timePassed;
            yPos = aniNo.findYNo(y0,xPos,lAngle,iVelocity);
            
            if (yPos >= bottom)
            {
                finStart();
            }

            myDot.x = xPos;
            myDot.y = yPos;

            container_mc.addChild(trail);
            trail.graphics.lineTo(xPos, yPos);
            
            //values to use in local datagrid
            //roundX is a decimal places fixing function
            values_array.push({t:roundX(timePassed,2), Ax:roundX(aX,2), Ay:roundX(aY,2), Vx:roundX(vX,2), Vy:roundX(vY,2), X:roundX(xPos,2), Y:roundX(-yPos,2)});
        }
        
        //start the constuctor and functions that handle events here - works great
        public function Main()
        {   
            addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
        }

        public function init(e:Event):void
        {
            removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
            export_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, export);
        }
    }
};

The width for your table is actually defined by the sum of the column's width, using GridColumn. I find that the width inside Grid(..) doesn't really do anything. It's just there to keep everything intact.