WidthPercentage not a member of itextsharp

Question

for this line:

 c.WidthPercentage = 100F

i am getting this error:

Error 1 'WidthPercentage' is not a member of 'iTextSharp.text.Table'.

here's the entire code. it's taken directly from the tutorial

Imports System Imports System.Drawing Imports System.IO Imports iTextSharp.text Imports iTextSharp.text.pdf Namespace iTextSharp.tutorial.Chap05

Public Class Chap0514

 Public Sub New()
  Console.WriteLine("Chapter 5 example 14: nested tables")
  Dim document As Document = New Document
  Try
   PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, New FileStream("Chap0514.pdf", FileMode.Create))
   document.Open
   Dim secondTable As Table = New Table(2)
   secondTable.AddCell("2nd table 0.0")
   secondTable.AddCell("2nd table 0.1")
   secondTable.AddCell("2nd table 1.0")
   secondTable.AddCell("2nd table 1.1")
   Dim aTable As Table = New Table(4, 4)
   aTable.AutoFillEmptyCells = True
   aTable.AddCell("2.2", New Point(2, 2))
   aTable.AddCell("3.3", New Point(3, 3))
   aTable.AddCell("2.1", New Point(2, 1))
   aTable.InsertTable(secondTable, New Point(1, 3))
   document.Add(aTable)
   Dim thirdTable As Table = New Table(2)
   thirdTable.AddCell("3rd table 0.0")
   thirdTable.AddCell("3rd table 0.1")
   thirdTable.AddCell("3rd table 1.0")
   thirdTable.AddCell("3rd table 1.1")
   aTable = New Table(5, 5)
   aTable.AutoFillEmptyCells = True
   aTable.AddCell("2.2", New Point(2, 2))
   aTable.AddCell("3.3", New Point(3, 3))
   aTable.AddCell("2.1", New Point(2, 1))
   aTable.InsertTable(secondTable, New Point(1, 3))
   aTable.InsertTable(thirdTable, New Point(6, 2))
   document.Add(aTable)
   Dim a As Table = New Table(2)
   a.Widths = New Single() {85, 15}
   a.AddCell("a-1")
   a.AddCell("a-2")
   Dim b As Table = New Table(5)
   b.Widths = New Single() {15, 7, 7, 7, 7}
   b.AddCell("b-1")
   b.AddCell("b-2")
   b.AddCell("b-3")
   b.AddCell("b-4")
   b.AddCell("b-5")
   Dim c As Table = New Table(3, 1)
   c.WidthPercentage = 100F
   c.Widths = New Single() {20, 2, 78}
   c.InsertTable(a, New Point(0, 0))
   c.InsertTable(b, New Point(0, 2))
   document.Add(c)
   Dim t1 As Table = New Table(3)
   t1.AddCell("1.1")
   t1.AddCell("1.2")
   t1.AddCell("1.3")
   Dim t2 As Table = New Table(2)
   t2.AddCell("2.1")
   t2.AddCell("2.2")
   t1.InsertTable(t2)
   t1.AddCell("new cell")
   document.Add(t1)
   t1 = New Table(2, 2)
   Dim i As Integer = 0
   While i < 4
    t1.AddCell("t1")
    System.Math.Min(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i),i-1)
   End While
   t2 = New Table(3, 3)
   i= 0
   While i < 9
    If i = 4 Then
     t2.InsertTable(t1)
    Else
     t2.AddCell("t2")
    End If
    System.Math.Min(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i),i-1)
   End While
   Dim t3 As Table = New Table(4, 4)
   i= 0
   While i < 16
    If i = 10 Then
     t3.InsertTable(t2)
    Else
     t3.AddCell("t3")
    End If
    System.Math.Min(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i),i-1)
   End While
   document.Add(t3)
  Catch de As DocumentException
   Console.Error.WriteLine(de.Message)
  Catch ioe As IOException
   Console.Error.WriteLine(ioe.Message)
  End Try
  document.Close
 End Sub
End Class

End Namespace

Answer 1

It appears that you are using a version of iTextSharp that is more recent than the version used in the tutorial. This should work:

c.Width = 100F