How to make a BIRT Report Item Extension resizable ?

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Hi everyone,

I hope you guys could help me with the following problem.

I'm not really a pro yet, but I developed a BIRT Report Item Extension to use in Report Designer and of course in my java application. The Extension works fine, but there is a problem when I want to make the new report item resizable in the BIRT Report Designer (eclipse). There is an option "isResizable" but when I choose "yes" there are only the controls to resize an item when I grab a corner of the report item, but nothing happens when I try to resize it.

I hope you understood what my problem is and can help me asap ?

Thanks

JasonW

When you set the isResizable any time you change the height or width of the item your updateFigure event will be called. It is passed a handle to the report item and a current figure. The report item handle will have the new height and width. You need to then redraw your item with the new size.

IReportItem item = handle.getReportItem( );
item.getProperty("height");

Look at org.eclipse.birt.chart.reportitem.ui.ChartReportItemUIImpl updateFigure method for an example. The size you get will need to be converted to pts and the chart report item shows some examples of doing this.

Jason