[Gambas-user] Printing Support

[Rob]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:58, Naveen Agarawal wrote:
> How is it possible to send the output to printer. Say
> for example you run a query and extract the records in
> a table view. How these records can be printed on a
> printer?

Currently, there is no automated way to do this.  If you just 
want a screen grab of the table view control, you can just do 
something like

draw.begin(Printer)
draw.picture(0,0,myControl.Grab)
' syntax for the above is from memory and may be wrong
draw.end

but if you want to make a nice report you'll need to iterate 
through each column and each row, keeping track of the cursor 
position for each, and draw each of them to the printer using 
Draw.Text.

It seems to me someone was working on a report generator applet 
in Gambas 6 or 8 months ago, but if one doesn't appear by the 
time it's possible to implement Gambas components natively in 
Gambas, I will probably write a component and add a report 
designer to the IDE.  I had hoped that Openoffice Base would 
make such a thing unnecessary but after using it in OO.o 1.9, I 
think the Linux world is still in need of a more 
Access/Crystal-like report designer.

Rob