TCPDF create move-able "box" with text without using ln settings - tcpdf

Question

I am trying to create a bit of a unique table in TCPDF as shown below:
Getting the captions, headers and rows setup is easy. The hard part is the "bar".
The bar needs a few things:
Editable X-position
Text
Originally I was trying to use MultiCell; however, I got some weird behavior as shown below:
Multi-Cell:
I believe this is because of the ln settings. If we look at my code you can see that I am trying to create a Cell and then a MultiCell inside of it. Both of these use the have the ln setting to put the next cell below.
I tried setting the MultiCell's ln to 0 (to the right) but it had no visible change.
//multi cell
// extend TCPF with custom functions
class MYPDF extends TCPDF {
// SCC table
public function SCCTable($headers,$rows) {
// Colors, line width and bold font
$this->SetFillColor(0,128,128);
$this->SetTextColor(0);
$this->SetDrawColor(0);
$this->SetLineWidth(0.3);
$this->SetFont('', 'B');
// Header
$num_headers = count($headers);
for($i = 0; $i < $num_headers; ++$i) {
$this->Cell(
$headers[$i]->width,
$headers[$i]->height,
$headers[$i]->text,
1,
0,
'C',
1
);
}
$this->Ln();
// Color and font restoration
$this->SetFillColor(255);
$this->SetTextColor(0);
$this->SetFont('');
// Data
$fill = 0;
$num_rows = count($rows);
for($i = 0; $i < $num_rows; ++$i){
$this->Cell(//Row
$headers[$i]->width * $num_headers, //Row width should be the sum of all header width.
$rows[$i]->height,
//Row's Text
$this->MultiCell(
$rows[$i]->width,
$rows[$i]->height,
$rows[$i]->text,
0, //Border
"C", //Text Align
false, //fill, determines if the background is painted or transparent (false).
2, //ln, 1 = Next cell starts at beginning of new line.
$rows[$i]->x,
$rows[$i]->y
),
1, //Border
2, //ln, 1 = Next cell starts at beginning of new line.
"L" //text align
);
}
}
}
After this I found out about TextField. When I tried this I got just as weird behavior...
//text field
// extend TCPF with custom functions
class MYPDF extends TCPDF {
// SCC table
public function SCCTable($headers,$rows) {
// Colors, line width and bold font
$this->SetFillColor(0,128,128);
$this->SetTextColor(0);
$this->SetDrawColor(0);
$this->SetLineWidth(0.3);
$this->SetFont('', 'B');
// Header
$num_headers = count($headers);
for($i = 0; $i < $num_headers; ++$i) {
$this->Cell(
$headers[$i]->width,
$headers[$i]->height,
$headers[$i]->text,
1,
0,
'C',
1
);
}
$this->Ln();
// Color and font restoration
$this->SetFillColor(255);
$this->SetTextColor(0);
$this->SetFont('');
// Data
$fill = 0;
$num_rows = count($rows);
for($i = 0; $i < $num_rows; ++$i){
$this->Cell(//Row
$headers[$i]->width * $num_headers, //Row width should be the sum of all header width.
$rows[$i]->height,
//Row's Text
$this->TextField(
$rows[$i]->text,
$rows[$i]->width,
$rows[$i]->height,
[],
[],
$rows[$i]->x,
$rows[$i]->y
),
1, //Border
2, //ln, 1 = Next cell starts at beginning of new line.
"L" //text align
);
}
}
}
Finally I thought of using the Rect function to create a rectangle and Text to the draw the text. Using variables I could "glue" the Text to the Rectangle; however, the textfield uses the ln setting as well; furthermore, looking at the actual code there is this line:
$this->Cell(0, 0, $txt, $border, $ln, $align, $fill, $link, $stretch, $ignore_min_height, $calign, $valign);
Seeing as it creates a cell, then it should run into the same problem as MultiCell, as the only difference between Cell and MultiCell in my case is the ability to change the x-position from the left border.
So I'm stuck with this question: How can I draw a "box" that has text and can be pushed along horizontally?
How this is done is not that important except that images aren't an option.

Answer 1

I realized I didn't actually need to have the original row. I could just make due with the "bar".
$this->MultiCell(
$rows[$i]->width,
$rows[$i]->height,
$rows[$i]->text,
1, //Border
"C", //Text Align
true, //fill, determines if the background is painted (true) or transparent (false).
2, //ln, 1 = Next cell starts at beginning of new line.
$rows[$i]->x,
$rows[$i]->y
);
Though with that said it would still be nice to know how to do with rows...