Hi everyone,
Jeffrey chatted with me yesterday and suggested that working on
printing would be a more beneficial use of my remaining time, since
it's an area in which nobody else has much expertise, whereas month
view could be worked on by just about everyone. So after some checking
with Grant and Katie, I'm putting aside the month view work for now
and switching my focus to printing.
The two primary areas to get working are the detail view and the month
view.
The month view is tricky because as of yet, the wx rendering class
GraphicsContext does not have a proper printing back-end. There are
plans for it, but it is not expected any time soon. A workaround is to
render the month view to a bitmap and print *that*. To get good
quality output, the bitmap needs to be large - ideally, the same
resolution as the printed page. At a modest 600 dpi, an 8½x11" page is
5,100 x 6,600 pixels. Using 24-bit pixels, that's 96 MB, which is a
large bitmap for mst printers to handle, so printing it could be a bit
slow.
The detail view will be handled by adding a new printing menu item in
the File menu titled "Print Item Details", which will print the
information in the detail view. This will be done by rendering it to
an HTML view and printing that, which wxPython does quite nicely.
Meanwhile, I've checked in my latest month view changes to the
month_rework branch. The code is at a point where it *should* be
drawing multi-day events properly across the first week of their multi-
dayness (I haven't done multi-week handling yet), but it isn't.
Reid
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