wxPrinter Class Reference
[Printing Framework]

#include <wx/print.h>

Inheritance diagram for wxPrinter:

wxObject

List of all members.


Detailed Description

This class represents the Windows or PostScript printer, and is the vehicle through which printing may be launched by an application.

Printing can also be achieved through using of lower functions and classes, but this and associated classes provide a more convenient and general method of printing.

Library:  wxBase

Category:  Printing Framework

See also:
Printing Framework Overview, wxPrinterDC, wxPrintDialog, wxPrintout, wxPrintPreview

Public Member Functions

 wxPrinter (wxPrintDialogData *data=NULL)
virtual wxWindowCreateAbortWindow (wxWindow *parent, wxPrintout *printout)
bool GetAbort () const
virtual wxPrintDialogDataGetPrintDialogData () const
virtual bool Print (wxWindow *parent, wxPrintout *printout, bool prompt=true)
virtual wxDCPrintDialog (wxWindow *parent)
virtual void ReportError (wxWindow *parent, wxPrintout *printout, const wxString &message)
virtual bool Setup (wxWindow *parent)

Static Public Member Functions

static wxPrinterError GetLastError ()

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

wxPrinter::wxPrinter ( wxPrintDialogData data = NULL  ) 

Constructor.

Pass an optional pointer to a block of print dialog data, which will be copied to the printer object's local data.

See also:
wxPrintDialogData, wxPrintData


Member Function Documentation

virtual wxWindow* wxPrinter::CreateAbortWindow ( wxWindow parent,
wxPrintout printout 
) [virtual]

Creates the default printing abort window, with a cancel button.

bool wxPrinter::GetAbort (  )  const

Returns true if the user has aborted the print job.

static wxPrinterError wxPrinter::GetLastError (  )  [static]

Return last error. Valid after calling Print(), PrintDialog() or wxPrintPreview::Print().

These functions set last error to wxPRINTER_NO_ERROR if no error happened.

Returned value is one of the following:

wxPRINTER_NO_ERROR No error happened.
wxPRINTER_CANCELLED The user cancelled printing.
wxPRINTER_ERROR There was an error during printing.

virtual wxPrintDialogData& wxPrinter::GetPrintDialogData (  )  const [virtual]

Returns the print data associated with the printer object.

virtual bool wxPrinter::Print ( wxWindow parent,
wxPrintout printout,
bool  prompt = true 
) [virtual]

Starts the printing process. Provide a parent window, a user-defined wxPrintout object which controls the printing of a document, and whether the print dialog should be invoked first.

Print() could return false if there was a problem initializing the printer device context (current printer not set, for example) or the user cancelled printing. Call GetLastError() to get detailed information about the kind of the error.

virtual wxDC* wxPrinter::PrintDialog ( wxWindow parent  )  [virtual]

Invokes the print dialog.

If successful (the user did not press Cancel and no error occurred), a suitable device context will be returned; otherwise NULL is returned; call GetLastError() to get detailed information about the kind of the error.

Remarks:
The application must delete this device context to avoid a memory leak.

virtual void wxPrinter::ReportError ( wxWindow parent,
wxPrintout printout,
const wxString message 
) [virtual]

Default error-reporting function.

virtual bool wxPrinter::Setup ( wxWindow parent  )  [virtual]

Invokes the print setup dialog.

Remarks:
The setup dialog is obsolete from Windows 95, though retained for backward compatibility.



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