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Hi

Is there any chance printer support will be implemented soon. It's a deal breaker for me that Q7Basic supports printing Text and Graphics to a printed page.

Q7Basic is starting to look pretty good, with each new version making it more usable, but to me printing support is vital.

Andyf

Hi

When the form designer is implemented, the work on the report designer can start. It will take a few months to have the report designer, I think.

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping for Printer Support other than through the use of reports.

I need to print data, but not from a SQLite database and was hoping Q7Basic would support the use
of commands similar to:

Startprinting StopPrinting Drawtext Drawsquare etc.

Perhaps the implementation in Q7basic will be much better than in KBasic, and will do what I want
but when I was evauluating KBasic, I couldn't see how I could use Reports for my needs.

Andyf

Hi Andyf,

but when I was evauluating KBasic, I couldn't see how I could use Reports for my needs.

for your info you can print in KBasic without using reports.
see the CodeSnip example.

Better yet,
It works in Q7B the same,

Form with QPlainTextEdit and a QPushButton
code in MainWindow,

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Outlet plainTextEdit As QPlainTextEdit
Outlet pushButton As QPushButton

Signal on_pushButton_clicked(Checked As Boolean)
  Application.PrintHtml(plainTextEdit.PlainText)
End Signal


Didn't test it with other Qt controls but the basic's are already pressent

Thanks Slowdown

If I understand this correctly, Printhtml sends a text file formatted as HTML to the default printer and will print
the text component of the html code only.

Is there a way of selecting a different printer ? I want to be able to send output to
the printer, and a pdfprinter, using code to select the printer.

Andyf

If I understand this correctly, Printhtml sends a text file formatted as HTML to the default printer and will print
the text component of the html code only.

I have tested it quickly with a plaintext file but i guess it will also work with html formatted files.

Is there a way of selecting a different printer ? I want to be able to send output to
the printer, and a pdfprinter, using code to select the printer.

I got the printerdialog so i was able to select a printer.

did a quick test,
Added a second Pushbutton on the form.

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Signal on_pushButton_2_clicked(Checked As Boolean)
  Dim PrintFile As String

  PrintFile = OpenFileDialog.GetFile("Select a file to print", "/", "")
  PrintFile = ReadString(PrintFile)
  Application.PrintHtml(PrintFile)
End Signal


Was able to print Html text to my pdf printer

Thanks for your help Slowdown. I'll re-evaulate Q7Basic's printing capabailities using the examples you've kindly come up with.

Andyf