On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:18:45AM +0200, Eric Brunel wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:08:35 -0400, Chris Lambacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > This question has come up a few times on the list with no one giving a > > public > > answer. How do you use CreatePrintDialog from win32ui? > > > > About a year ago someone posted that: > > dlg = win32ui.CreatePrintDialog(1538) > > dlg.DoModal() > > > > will give you the window, but the ok button does not work. > > Here is what I did to make it work: > > <code> > import win32ui > from pywin.mfc import window, dialog > > class WindowsPrintDialog(window.Wnd): > > # Numbers for various items in the dialog > PROPERTIES_BTN = 1025 > PRINTER_NAME = 1139 > PRINT_TO_FILE = 1040 > PRINT_ALL = 1056 > PRINT_PAGES = 1058 > PRINT_SELECTION = 1057 > FIRST_PAGE = 1152 > LAST_PAGE = 1153 > FROM_TEXT = 1089 > TO_TEXT = 1090 > NB_COPIES = 1154 > > def __init__(self): > dlg = = win32ui.CreatePrintDialog(1538) > window.Wnd.__init__(self, printDlg) > > def OnInitDialog(self): > ## Initialize dialog itself > self._obj_.OnInitDialog() > ## Activate all widgets > for i in (WindowsPrintDialog.PRINT_ALL, WindowsPrintDialog.PRINT_PAGES, > WindowsPrintDialog.FIRST_PAGE, WindowsPrintDialog.LAST_PAGE, > WindowsPrintDialog.FROM_TEXT, WindowsPrintDialog.TO_TEXT, > WindowsPrintDialog.PRINT_SELECTION): > itm = self._obj_.GetDlgItem(i) > itm.EnableWindow() > ## Disable "Properties" button: it doesn't work... > itm = self._obj_.GetDlgItem(WindowsPrintDialog.PROPERTIES_BTN) > itm.EnableWindow(0) > > def OnOK(self): > ## Call on dialog itself > self._obj_.OnOK() > self._obj_.UpdateData(1) > ## Now you can get values entered in dialog via: > ## - self.IsDlgButtonChecked(<id>) pour check-buttons > ## - self.GetDlgItemText(<id>) for textual fields > ## - self.GetDlgItemInt(<id>) for integer fields > ## Then use these info. to create your printer DC; for example: > printerName = self.GetDlgItemText(WindowsPrintDialog.PRINTER_NAME) > dc = win32ui.CreateDC() > dc.CreatePrinterDC(printerName) > ## And so on... > </code> > > Note that the printer properties button is explicitely disabled. If it's not, > it seems to be working (it actually opens the printer properties dialog and > all options can be modified without any error), but actually doesn't change a > thing: the printing will be done with the printer default settings. If > anybody has any idea on how this thing works, please let me know: I'm very > interested. > In the MFC documentation, CPrintDialog has a GetPrinterDC method. This method AFAICT gives you a printer device contex which has all the settings set for you.
> > Diging into the source shows that the 1538 is being loaded as a template > > resource. The MSDN documentation does not say anything about this being > > neccessary and in fact, other common dialogs provide this as an option, but > > not a requirement. Why is this made a requirement? If it was not made a > > requirement, would the dialog work? > > I guess it would just be a matter of giving the default value 1538 to the > idRes parameter in win32ui.CreatePrintDialog; AFAICT, this is always the id > for the default print dialog. Can't figure out why it was not done in the > first place... > The problem is that 1538 is loaded as a template resource. I get exactly the same result from many resources all the way up to 20000 (I tried them in a loop). I suspect that this number just works because it is an ever present resource id, and does not actually do anything to help us. When used in conjuntion with the rest of the MFC printing framework, the dialog seems to work, but this does not help me because the rest of my application is in PyGTK, I would rather limit my MFC programming to the bare minimum. If I could get the PrintDlg function to work, I would use that instead. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to make that work either. I may just have to pull out MinGW and compile a module that uses the PrintDlg function. > > Unfortunately I can't play with this because I don't have Visual Studio. I > > guess the logical next step, if the above worked, would be to add the > > GetPrinterDC() method (and maybe some others) so that we can do something > > useful with the dialog. > > Yep. See above. > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > HTH > -- > python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in > 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17;8(%,5.Z65\'*9--56l7+-'])" > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
