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Annoatation list

Annoations can be viewed as a list in this UI component

View annotations as list in Xamarin.Android

This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.Android. See Xamarin.iOS equivalent here .

The AnnotationDialogFragment displays a list of all annotations in a document being viewed by a PDFViewCtrl. The list also contains any comments that have been added to the annotations.

Show annotation dialog

To show an annotation dialog fragment in your activity, create a new instance of AnnotationDialogFragment by calling newInstance() and setting the PDFViewCtrl:

C#

1fun showBookmarksDialog(fragmentManager: FragmentManager, pdfViewCtrl: PDFViewCtrl): BookmarksDialogFragment {
2    var bookmarksDialog = pdftron.PDF.Dialog.BookmarksDialogFragment.NewInstance();
3    bookmarksDialog.SetPdfViewCtrl(pdfViewCtrl);
4    List<DialogFragmentTab> tabs = new List<DialogFragmentTab>();
5    var annotationsTab = new DialogFragmentTab(
6        Java.Lang.Class.FromType(typeof(AnnotationDialogFragment)), BookmarksTabLayout.TagTabAnnotation, null, "Annotations", "Bookmarks Dialog", null);
7    tabs.Add(annotationsTab);
8    bookmarksDialog.SetDialogFragmentTabs(tabs);
9    bookmarksDialog.SetStyle((int)DialogFragmentStyle.NoTitle, Resource.Style.PDFTronAppTheme);
10    bookmarksDialog.Show(fragmentManager, "bookmarks_dialog");
11    return bookmarksDialog;
12}

Listener

By calling setAnnotationDialogListener(AnnotationDialogListener), you can set a listener to be notified when an annotation item is clicked, or when document annotations are exported to a PDF doc when users click on the export floating action button.

Read-only

If the document has write access, users can delete existing annotations by long-pressing on the annotation. To specify whether the document is read-only call setReadOnly(boolean).

View annotations as list in Xamarin.iOS

This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.iOS. See Xamarin.Android equivalent here .

The PTAnnotationViewController class shows a list of all annotations in a document being viewed by a PTPDFViewCtrl. The list contains any comments that have been added to the annotations.

The annotations list control is part of the Tools library, so make sure you have added the Tools library to your project.

Show an annotation view controller

To create a new annotation view controller instance and display it from another view controller, supply a PTPDFViewCtrl instance to the PTAnnotationViewController designated initializer:

C#

1var annotationViewController = new pdftron.PDF.Controls.PTAnnotationViewController (mPdfViewCtrl);
2annotationViewController.AnnotationViewControllerAnnotationSelected += (object sender, AnnotationViewControllerAnnotationSelectedEventArgs e) => {
3    // perform custom action
4    this.DismissViewController (true, null);
5};
6annotationViewController.AnnotationViewControllerDidCancel += (object sender, EventArgs e) => {
7    this.DismissViewController (true, null);
8};
9
10var navigationController = new UINavigationController (annotationViewController);
11if (UserInterfaceIdiomIsPad)
12{
13    navigationController.ModalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover;
14    navigationController.PopoverPresentationController.BarButtonItem = annotationListButton;
15}
16
17this.PresentViewController (navigationController, true, null);

The annotation view controller must be pushed onto a navigation controller's stack before being shown.

Presenting on iPads:

The annotation view controller is designed to be presented in a popover on iPads. To do so, you must provide the PTAnnotationViewController's PopoverPresentationController with either:

a SourceRect AND
a SourceView

a BarButtonItem

as in the example above.

You can set a delegate to be notified by the annotation view controller when annotations are selected with the PTAnnotationViewControllerDelegate protocol. (See the CompleteReader sample for usage of the PTAnnotationViewController.)

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