[Gambas-user] Printing

[Rob]

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 17:44, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > Also, is there a way to grab the entire Form client area
> > (Or the entire window for that matter) and print it?
> No way at the moment.

Well, there's actually no way to do that in VB either except as a very low 
resolution screenshot type of thing.  The solution I came up with was to 
write a set of functions that wrapped the various graphics primitives I 
needed (as well as some extra text formatting functions since I was writing a 
report generator) and wrote them to the screen, printer or both devices 
depending on your settings.  I think that's a more reasonable approach than 
making Gambas track everything you've done to the Form client area.  Though 
if someone with too much time on their hands wanted to write a Display 
Postscript canvas I'd give that a try too ;)

Then again if all you want is a printscreen type of thing, all you need is to 
call an external screen grabbing program.  Maybe the Gambas KDE automation 
stuff could be extended to control KSnapshot for example, or maybe there's a 
way to get the X11 handle of the window you're controlling and use some more 
traditional X capture utility.

Rob