Working with TextBoxes
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In Aspose.Words, TextBox class is used to specify how a text is displayed inside a shape. It provides a public property named as parent to get the parent shape for the text box to allow customer to find linked Shape from linked TextBox.
Creating a Link
TextBox class provides is_valid_link_target method in order to check whether the TextBox can be linked to the target Textbox as shown in the code snippet given below:
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| # For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-Python-via-.NET | |
| doc = aw.Document() | |
| shape1 = aw.drawing.Shape(doc, aw.drawing.ShapeType.TEXT_BOX) | |
| shape2 = aw.drawing.Shape(doc, aw.drawing.ShapeType.TEXT_BOX) | |
| textBox1 = shape1.text_box | |
| textBox2 = shape2.text_box | |
| if textBox1.is_valid_link_target(textBox2) : | |
| textBox1.next = textBox2 |
Check TextBox Sequence
The following code snippets shows how to check if Shape.text_box is a Head, a Tail or a Middle of the sequence:
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| # For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-Python-via-.NET | |
| doc = aw.Document() | |
| shape = aw.drawing.Shape(doc, aw.drawing.ShapeType.TEXT_BOX) | |
| textBox = shape.text_box | |
| if (textBox.next != None and textBox.previous == None) : | |
| print("The head of the sequence") | |
| if (textBox.next != None and textBox.previous != None) : | |
| print("The Middle of the sequence.") | |
| if (textBox.next == None and textBox.previous != None) : | |
| print("The Tail of the sequence.") | |
Breaking a Link
The following code snippet shows how to break a link for a Shape.text_box:
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| # For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-Python-via-.NET | |
| doc = aw.Document() | |
| shape = aw.drawing.Shape(doc, aw.drawing.ShapeType.TEXT_BOX) | |
| textBox = shape.text_box | |
| # Break a forward link. | |
| textBox.break_forward_link() | |
| # Break a forward link by setting a None. | |
| textBox.next = None | |
| # Break a link, which leads to this textbox. | |
| if textBox.previous != None : | |
| textBox.previous.break_forward_link() |