Open a document (iOS)

The PTTabbedDocumentViewController class is a container view controller that hosts multiple PTDocumentControllers with a tabbed interface. For more information about the PTDocumentController class, please see this guide.

On iPads or other devices with a Regular horizontal size class then the tabs will be shown in a bar along the top of the view, for Compact size classes the tabs will be accessible in the UIToolbar at the bottom of the view.

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

The following sample demonstrates how to show a tabbed viewer controller with a document from another UIViewController:

1PTTabbedDocumentViewController tabbedController = new PTTabbedDocumentViewController();
2UINavigationController navigationController = new UINavigationController(tabbedController);
3NSUrl fileURL = NSBundle.MainBundle.GetUrlForResource("sample", "pdf");
4
5tabbedController.OpenDocumentWithURL(fileURL);
6
7this.PresentViewController(navigationController, true, null);

The openDocumentWithURL: method will create a new tab if the URL is not already being displayed, otherwise it will switch to the existing tab.

The tabbed viewer controller currently relies on the UINavigationController to supply a navigation bar for the buttons.

For more control over how tabs are added to the tabbed viewer controller, the addTabWithURL:selected:error: and insertTabWithURL:atIndex:selected:error: methods can be used:

1// Add the fileURL to the end of the tab bar, without changing the selected tab.
2NSError error = null;
3bool success = tabbedController.AddTabWithURL(fileURL, false, out error);
4if (!success)
5{
6    Console.WriteLine("add tab failed...");
7}
8// Insert and select the otherFileURL at the start of the tab bar.
9NSError error = null;
10bool success = tabbedController.InsertTabWithURL(otherFileURL, 0, true, out error);
11if (!success)
12{
13    Console.WriteLine("insert and select tab failed...");
14}

The behavior of the tabbed viewer controller can be customized with several properties. The tabsEnabled and maximumTabCount properties can be used to disable the tab bar and limit the number of tabs, respectively. By default, tabs are enabled in the tabbed viewer controller and there is no limit on the number of tabs.

The tab bar's visibility is controlled by the tabBarHidden property. To animate the change in visibility, the setTabBarHidden:animated: method can be used.

When the containing navigation controller's navigation bar is hidden, the tabbed viewer also hides its tab bar.

To configure a document view controller before it is displayed, conform to and implement the PTTabbedDocumentViewControllerDelegate method willAddDocumentViewController. Note that it is permissible to assign the internal PTDocumentController's delegate to an external object.

1tabbedDocumentViewController.WillAddDocumentViewController += (sender, e) =>
2{
3    // do something with e.DocumentViewController
4};

You can set a delegate to be notified by the tabbed viewer controller when tabs are removed with the PTTabbedDocumentViewControllerDelegate protocol's tabbedDocumentViewController:willRemoveTabAtIndex: method.

The tabbedDocumentViewController:willRemoveTabAtIndex: delegate method can be used to close the tabbed viewer controller when the last tab is closed:

1tabbedDocumentViewController.WillRemoveTabAtIndex += (sender, e) => {
2    if (((PTTabbedDocumentViewController)sender).TabURLs.Length > 1)
3    {
4        return;
5    }
6    ((PTTabbedDocumentViewController)sender).DismissViewController(true, null);
7};

The PTPDFViewCtrl is a UIView that displays a PDF.

If your app is displaying a PDF, a PTPDFViewCtrl will be used in one of two ways:

• Directly, by adding it as a subview to another view in your app.
• As a component piece of a PTDocumentController or PTTabbedDocumentViewController. (It is accessible via the pdfViewCtrl property.)

1. These instructions assume that you've initialized Apryse.
2. Add a PDF to your project:
   • Right click on Resources
   • Click on Add > Add Files
   • Choose a file (in this tutorial, let's say we added a sample.pdf) and confirm add
   • Make sure the Build Action of the file is set to BundleResource
3. Instantiate a new PDFDoc:

1var pdfPath = "sample.pdf";
2var docToOpen = new pdftron.PDF.PDFDoc(pdfPath);

1. Create a new PDFViewCtrl and add it as a child to the current view:Running the app will now display the PDF sample.pdf. However, it will not support annotation creation, editing, text selection, or any other UI aspect that is handled by Tools package . To add support for annotations and text selection you need to incorporate the tools package .

1// Create a new PDFViewCtrl
2var pdfViewCtrl = new pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl();
3
4// Set the document to display
5pdfViewCtrl.Doc = TypeConvertHelper.ConvPDFDocToNative(docToOpen);
6
7// Add the PDFViewCtrl to the current view controller's root view.
8View.AddSubview(pdfViewCtrl);
9
10// Auto Layout
11pdfViewCtrl.TranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false;
12NSLayoutConstraint.ActivateConstraints(new NSLayoutConstraint[] {
13    pdfViewCtrl.LeadingAnchor.ConstraintEqualTo(this.View.LeadingAnchor),
14    pdfViewCtrl.WidthAnchor.ConstraintEqualTo(this.View.WidthAnchor),
15    pdfViewCtrl.TopAnchor.ConstraintEqualTo(this.View.LayoutMarginsGuide.TopAnchor),
16    pdfViewCtrl.BottomAnchor.ConstraintEqualTo(this.View.BottomAnchor)
17});