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 2 (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
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