Re: Help with canvas to printer

On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:16 PM, Dave Bert wrote:

>  I am new to RB so please forgive me for that part :) I have an  
> example that I could send you so we could discuss this better if  
> you don't mind. I can print text and boxes etc just fine but  
> graphics and canvases are totally new to me. My example is a feeble  
> attempt at what I scrounged on the net to make this work and now I  
> am totally confused. Let me know...

Nah, let's do it on the list so that everyone can learn. :)

Let's say we have a window with a canvas. You want to print what's in  
that canvas. But you can't, but the canvas forgets what it's drawn as  
soon as it's done. So we need to give the window a property, say  
something like MyPicture as Picture. Now, wherever you were drawing  
to the canvas, draw instead to MyPicture.Graphics. Then in the  
canvas's paint event, you'd put g.DrawPicture MyPicture,0,0 (or  
something like that; this is from memory). When you're ready to  
print, you'll get a graphics object from the printer. In that  
graphics object, write DrawPicture MyPicture,0,0 (just like for the  
canvas).

I'm not sure I explained that very well. Let me know if I just made  
things worse. ;)

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Brad Rhine
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