johnf wrote:
> 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()
Here's a working test:
{{{
import wx
a = wx.App(False)
def testPrint():
data = wx.PrintDialogData()
data.EnableSelection(True)
data.EnablePrintToFile(True)
data.EnablePageNumbers(True)
data.SetMinPage(1)
data.SetMaxPage(5)
data.SetAllPages(True)
dlg = wx.PrintDialog(None, data)
result = dlg.ShowModal()
print result, result == wx.ID_OK
if result == wx.ID_OK:
data = dlg.GetPrintDialogData()
mytest=data.GetPrintData()
print mytest.GetPrinterName()
dlg.Destroy()
testPrint()
}}}
No printer name on Mac.
Paul
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