Insert text box

The following example shows how to insert a text box (Frame with TextBox) into a text document.

import com.independentsoft.office.odf.Paragraph;
import com.independentsoft.office.odf.Size;
import com.independentsoft.office.odf.TextDocument;
import com.independentsoft.office.odf.Unit;
import com.independentsoft.office.odf.drawing.Frame;
import com.independentsoft.office.odf.drawing.TextBox;
import com.independentsoft.office.odf.styles.AnchorType;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            TextDocument doc = new TextDocument();

            Paragraph boxContent = new Paragraph();
            boxContent.add("Text inside the text box.");

            TextBox textBox = new TextBox();
            textBox.add(boxContent);

            Frame frame = new Frame();
            frame.setName("TextBox1");
            frame.setAnchorType(AnchorType.PARAGRAPH);
            frame.setX(new Size(20, Unit.MILLIMETER));
            frame.setY(new Size(30, Unit.MILLIMETER));
            frame.setWidth(new Size(80, Unit.MILLIMETER));
            frame.setHeight(new Size(30, Unit.MILLIMETER));
            frame.add(textBox);

            Paragraph p1 = new Paragraph();
            p1.add("This paragraph contains a floating text box.");
            p1.add(frame);
            doc.getBody().add(p1);

            doc.save("c:\\test\\output.odt", true);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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