Dean Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > "Henry Merryweather" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >>Printing from a Canvas widget
> >>
> >>I want the print the image in the canvas widget. I appreciate that you
> >>can create a Postscript file of the image in the Canvas. However, can
> >>you directly send the image to a printer connected to the PC you are
> >>using? In the past I have resorted, for text, to sending this to
> >>something like Notepad and using its printing facilities. However I
> >>need to do it without an additional application if this is possible.
> >
> >
> > I am the maintainer of Tk::WinPrint, which can be used to print
> > the contents of Text and Canvas widgets. But from the README:
> >
> > | Works only with gcc (mingw32 or cygwin)!
> >
> > As I do not have a Windows development machine to develop on nor
> > I have any windows internals knowledge, I would like to give
> > module maintenance to someone else.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Slaven
> >
>
> Care to share a synopsis of how it works ? A cursory review
> seems to indicate Text gets converted to a Canvas, then the
> actual printing is applied to the Canvas. The Win32 code looks
> pretty simple, and my first attempt build burped on some preproc
> #define's, so it may not be too difficult.
Look at the test.pl file --- it's just a call to the newly created
method print. The method optionally takes a couple of arguments
which seem to be similar to arguments for the postscript() method.
Just look at tkWinPrintCanvas.c file for configSpecs[].
> That being said, I assume there's no hooks for the usual
> printer properties dialog ?
print() is supposed to popup a printer dialog, but there does not
seem to be any configuration parameters for the dialog.
Regards,
Slaven
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