Printer Support

[andyf]

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

[berndnoetscher]

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.

[andyf]

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

[Slowdown]

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.

[Slowdown]

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

[andyf]

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

[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.

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.

[Slowdown]

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

[andyf]

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

Andyf