send my textfields and JBGrid to printer

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Date of registration: Aug 14th 2012

Monday, January 14th 2013, 5:19pm

Hi again.
I have some textfields and a JBGrid with some rows(results after a search).
I also have a button "print".
How can i send my data to the printer.

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Dani

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Tuesday, January 15th 2013, 9:42am

Hey there,

some inspiration...

http://www.jabaco.org/board/p3071-jbgrid…t.html#post3071

http://www.jabaco.org/board/p1042-printing-rtf.html#post1042

download the Sample App:
http://www.jabaco.org/board/p3498-vorste…t.html#post3498

Dani

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fomaxrge

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Tuesday, January 15th 2013, 11:43am

Thank you very much Dani!
I wish i knew your language it could help me more

.
I will have a look at the links!

Thank you very much again!

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fomaxrge

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Tuesday, January 15th 2013, 1:56pm

Dani because i did not have my printer in my laptop now i used
microsoft xps document writer (as a test preview)

JBGrid1.parent.print work perfect but i wonder is there a way to have my

textfield1.parent.print AND textfield2.parent.print (IN ONE ROW)
JBGrid1.parent.print

ALL IN ONE PRINT!

for example i need something like this
from_date:21-05-2013 to_date:26-05-2013
JBGrid1 RESULTS

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Dani

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Tuesday, January 15th 2013, 5:52pm

Hey there,

it seems like there is a way to customize printing a JTable:

see: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/u…printtable.html

Jabaco Source

Dim Success As Boolean     
   Dim headerFormat As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("Page {0}")
   Dim footerFormat As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("- {0} -")
   Success = JBGrid1.Parent.print(JTable.PrintMode.FIT_WIDTH , headerFormat, footerFormat)

However, I dont know how to expose

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JTable.PrintMode

I don't have the time to get into it right now...sorry!
So, if you get it to work, let me know...

Dani

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fomaxrge

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Wednesday, January 16th 2013, 4:19pm

Dani i am trying different ways to have the footer and header BUT until now i did not succeed it.
I do not know what i am doing wrong but i am still having nothing as header/footer.

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Dani

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Wednesday, January 16th 2013, 7:12pm

Hey there,

I am afraid I can not help you. As I said, I don't get a handle on JTable.PrintMode myself!

You could populate a second hidden Table (visible=False), write your HeaderMsg to the first row and only print that table!
(Maybe use it as your visible table if that Msg does not disturb you!?)

Not very satisfying but does the job for now.

Maybe someone with a bit more Java knowledge can give some advice here?

Dani

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fomaxrge

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Friday, January 18th 2013, 1:08pm

Hi Dani you helped me a lot!

Now i am printing separately

JBGrid1.Parent.print
and then
JBGrid2.Parent.print

Do you now a way to print JBGrid1 and JBGrid2 in one page - print?

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Dani

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Friday, January 18th 2013, 5:21pm

Hey there,

I am not sure what exactly you did?
Are you using a second hidden JBGrid now?
If you do:
- set JBGrid1.HeaderVisible = False
- populate and format the first row, center cell with your custom title
- leave the second row empty
- populate the 3rd row with your header titles, format accordingly with html syntax
- populate the rest of the grid with the content of your visible grid

just an example, I don't know what you are after...

I did not have a use for printing yet; did you look into using a printer object?
It should not be too hard to write your tables content to a file and send that file to the printer.
You will be much more flexible with that!
There is a little bit about printing in the forum.

http://www.jabaco.org/board/p2331-drucken-wie.html#post2331
http://www.jabaco.org/board/p1042-printing-rtf.html#post1042

here you can find a class that produces html output for printing:
http://www.jabaco.org/board/p2528-creati…o.html#post2528

Dani

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fomaxrge

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Monday, January 21st 2013, 3:55pm

Dani i was trying to do something like this

	Jabaco Source
1 2 3 4 5	Public Sub Printtxt Dim File As vbFileHandler = Open("TempFile.txt") Write(File,RichTextBox1.Text) Dim D As Desktop = Desktop.getDesktop D.print(New file("TempFile.txt"))End Sub

but line

	Jabaco Source
1	Dim D As Desktop = Desktop.getDesktop

occurs compile error

Have you got any idea why i have got this error?

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Dani

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Monday, January 21st 2013, 8:14pm

Hey there,

why don't you just use the code by A1880 I provided a link to!?

Drucken, wie ?

it works fine for me...

Now here is a little update on printing a JBGrid, JTable with custom parameters, print dialog, header, footer, pagenumber and so on:

Jabaco Source

Public Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim Success As Boolean

   Dim strHeader As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("Page {0}")
   Dim strFooter As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("- {0} -")
   
'   table.print(JTable.PrintMode printMode, MessageFormat headerFormat, MessageFormat footerFormat, 
'               Boolean showPrintDialog, PrintRequestAttributeSet attr, Boolean interactive, PrintService service)
'   JTable$PrintMode.NORMAL
   Success = JBGrid1.Parent.print(JTable$PrintMode.FIT_WIDTH , strHeader, strFooter, True, Null, False, Null)
End Sub

Dani

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Dani

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Monday, January 21st 2013, 8:45pm

Hey there,

I pointed out in another thread
http://www.jabaco.org/board/p3071-jbgrid…t.html#post3071
that when printing a Jtable that...

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...
Unfortunately there is a border in the printed version surounding the grid that I can not get rid of!
I tried all sorts of things to make that border disappear:
...

I now know that this is hardcoded in the JavaClass TablePrintable.java
I have changed that class so it will not draw that box!! :whistling:

However I don't have a java compiler on my system and don't want to install a whole package just to compile this one class!!
If someone is willing to do that here is the source (look for the tag 'Dani' and you will find what I outcommented in the code)

MyPrintable.java

Once we have that class compiled we would have to override SuperClass TablePrintable of JTable and redirect to MyPrintable!
I am not quite sure how to do the 'redirect ' part though!?

Anyone interested in helping out here...?

Dani

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fomaxrge

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Wednesday, January 23rd 2013, 11:18am

Hi Dani i am using microsoft xps document writer (as a test preview) because i do not have a printer now.
There i can not see header or footer.
Can you?
Is there a possibility to see them ONLY when i print it?

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Dim Success As Boolean Dim strHeader As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("Page {0}") Dim strFooter As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("- {0} -") ' table.print(JTable.PrintMode printMode, MessageFormat headerFormat, MessageFormat footerFormat, ' Boolean showPrintDialog, PrintRequestAttributeSet attr, Boolean interactive, PrintService service) ' JTable$PrintMode.NORMAL Success = JBGrid1.Parent.print(JTable$PrintMode.FIT_WIDTH , strHeader, strFooter, True, Null, False, Null)

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Dani

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Wednesday, January 23rd 2013, 6:25pm

Hey there,

it works now

Jabaco Source

Public Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim Success As Boolean

   Dim strHeader As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("Page {0}")
   Dim strFooter As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("- {0} -")

   Success = JBGrid1.Parent.print(JTable$PrintMode.FIT_WIDTH , strHeader, strFooter, True, Null, False, Null)
End Sub

This little symbol $ makes all the difference!!

I am using edocprint to redirect printer output to .pdf files and header and footer show fine.

Dani

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fomaxrge

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Thursday, January 24th 2013, 12:14pm

Dani edocprint worked perfect to me too.

Do you now ...
1. if i can change the font size of header?
2. can i preset "landscape"
3. can i preset "margins" (top,left,right.left) instead of 25,4 TO 4?

Thank you for your help and your time!

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Dani

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Thursday, January 24th 2013, 1:06pm

Hey there,

it is all possible!!

Look for these in the internet

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JTable printing HashPrintRequestAttributeSet
customized printing JTable

just to give you an idea

Jabaco Source

Import javax.print.attribute.HashPrintRequestAttributeSet
Import javax.print.attribute.standard.OrientationRequested

Public Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim Success As Boolean

   Dim strHeader As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("Page {0}")
   Dim strFooter As MessageFormat = New MessageFormat("- {0} -")
   Dim Mode As JTable$PrintMode = FIT_WIDTH
   Dim printRequestAttributeSet As javax#print#attribute#HashPrintRequestAttributeSet = New HashPrintRequestAttributeSet()
   printRequestAttributeSet.add(OrientationRequested.LANDSCAPE)   
   Success = JBGrid1.Parent.print(Mode , strHeader, strFooter, True, printRequestAttributeSet, False, Null)
End Sub

BUT: be very carefull with what you are 'importing' you are adding a lot of weight to your project!!

Dani

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fomaxrge

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Thursday, January 24th 2013, 1:21pm

Unfortunately when i make imports i have many compile errors but i will make some more effords

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fomaxrge

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Saturday, January 26th 2013, 1:16pm

Something strange happening.
When i am trying to run my project i have this error...

java.lang.Exception: CallByName 'FIT_WIDTH' failed!

BUT when i delete the code and write again it works!
When i close my pc and next day open to work i happens again.

Have you got any idea?

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theuserbl

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Saturday, January 26th 2013, 1:52pm

Quoted from "fomaxrge"

java.lang.Exception: CallByName 'FIT_WIDTH' failed!

BUT when i delete the code and write again it works!
When i close my pc and next day open to work i happens again.

Have you got any idea?

Try to write the complete part: