iTextSharp difference between implicit explicit NewPage - itext

Question

I use the onStartPage event handler to write a header, works great, but I need to know whether I issued a NewPage() or it was issued due to a page overflow. Is there an elegant way to tell?
Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

You've written a page event implementation, and you've implemented one or more of its methods. You create an instance of this event like this:
MyPageEvent event = new MyPageEvent();
writer.setPageEvent(event);
Whenever the onStartPage() is called, you want to know if it was called from within iText or from your code using the newPage() method. As iText uses the same newPage() method internally, you'll have to use a trick.
Add a memberVariable to your page event application. Something like:
protected boolean myNewPage = false;
Now add this method to your event:
public void newPage(Document document) {
myNewPage = true;
document.newPage();
myNewPage = false;
}
Now whenever you want to trigger a new page, don't use:
document.newPage();
Use this instead:
event.newPage(document);
The onStartPage() method will be called internally for every new page that is initialized, and at that moment, the value of myNewPage will be true whenever the newPage() was triggered by yourself; otherwise it will be false.
I hope this helps; I didn't test it, I'm just telling you what I would try.
(PS: I'm the original developer of iText.)