On Friday 27 March 2009 10:16:14 am Paul McNett wrote:
> johnf wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "the dialog won't dismiss". On my linux
> > systems (test on several) the printer names are not available via wx
> > tools. But you are saying that the fact the bug or bugs exist is not the
> > reason the dialog was not wrapped. OK then let's do it. I'm sure it
> > would help with report writer ability to print to a printer. Tell me
> > what I need to do and I'll do it.
>
> As far as I can tell, you don't get printer names from the wx.PrintDialog;
> you get a wx.PrintDC to draw on.
>
> Report Writer "prints" to a pdf file, so I don't think it'll help here
> unless I switch report writer to no longer use reportlab but to draw onto
> wx DC's instead.
>
> I wouldn't know what to tell you to do until I'm almost doing it myself, at
> which point I may as well just do it myself. ;)
>
> Paul
Maybe we aren't on the page in this discussion. Yes it true that you can't
get printer names from the wx.PrintDialog. It is the data associated with
the wx.PrintDialog that has the printer names which is wx.PrintDialogData.
So as I understand it wx.PrintDialog.GetPrintDialogData() will return the data
from the dialog. And that does not contain the printer name on linux but
does from windows.
That said. PDF's are universal today. On most linux distro's I've worked
with (they use CUPS) sending PDF file to "lp" will print the PDF correctly.
I believe this is also true for windows both XP and Vista. I do not know how
MAC's handle the direct printing of PDF's. So as I see it you could just use
the native print dialog and pass the PDF as the file to print.
I would be interested in how a MAC prints PDF's.
Try below and let me know the results
def testPrint(self):
data = wx.PrintDialogData()
data.EnableSelection(True)
data.EnablePrintToFile(True)
data.EnablePageNumbers(True)
data.SetMinPage(1)
data.SetMaxPage(5)
data.SetAllPages(True)
dlg = wx.PrintDialog(self, data)
if dlg.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
data = dlg.GetPrintDialogData()
mytest=data.GetPrintData()
print mytest.GetPrinterName()
dlg.Destroy()
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John Fabiani
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