Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDialog

[choupi]

Hello,

Is there a way to call a printDialog from a printPreviewDia log (from print
icon for example)?
Indeed, the print icon in the printpreviewdia log prints directly the
document without lunching the printdialog (i.e. the user can't choose the
print parameters).

Thanks a lot.

[Bruce Wood]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log


choupi wrote:

Hello,
>
Is there a way to call a printDialog from a printPreviewDia log (from print
icon for example)?
Indeed, the print icon in the printpreviewdia log prints directly the
document without lunching the printdialog (i.e. the user can't choose the
print parameters).
>
Thanks a lot.

I ended up creating a File --Print... menu option that brings up the
print dialog.

One of the irritating things about the print preview dialog is that a
lot of things that you would want to change (like this particular
point) are "private" within the control and therefore not changeable. I
would have liked to have seen protected methods like
OnPrintButtonCl ick, etc, so that one could override the behaviour.

It would also have been nice to be able to hide / disable buttons on
the toolbar if we wanted to, even if the only way were to set a
PrintButtonEnab led property or something like that.

PrintPreviewDia log and TabControl are two of the hokier controls in
..NET. I hope that someday they'll revisit them and make much-needed
improvements.

[choupi]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log

Ok, so there's no way to add a new button in the toolbar I imagine ?!

"Bruce Wood" <brucewood@cana da.coma écrit dans le message de news:
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>
choupi wrote:

>Hello,
>>
>Is there a way to call a printDialog from a printPreviewDia log (from
>print
>icon for example)?
>Indeed, the print icon in the printpreviewdia log prints directly the
>document without lunching the printdialog (i.e. the user can't choose the
>print parameters).
>>
>Thanks a lot.

>
I ended up creating a File --Print... menu option that brings up the
print dialog.
>
One of the irritating things about the print preview dialog is that a
lot of things that you would want to change (like this particular
point) are "private" within the control and therefore not changeable. I
would have liked to have seen protected methods like
OnPrintButtonCl ick, etc, so that one could override the behaviour.
>
It would also have been nice to be able to hide / disable buttons on
the toolbar if we wanted to, even if the only way were to set a
PrintButtonEnab led property or something like that.
>
PrintPreviewDia log and TabControl are two of the hokier controls in
.NET. I hope that someday they'll revisit them and make much-needed
improvements.
>

[choupi]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log

Well, I just have found a simple way using Reflection, and it works
perfectly.
Let me know if you're interested.

Thanks.

[RobinS]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log

We're interested!
Robin S.
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"choupi" <none@none.comw rote in message
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Well, I just have found a simple way using Reflection, and it works
perfectly.
Let me know if you're interested.
>
Thanks.
>

[choupi]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log

using System;

using System.Reflection;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Drawing.Printing;

using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Test

{

public class MyPrintPreviewDialog : System.Windows.Forms.PrintPreviewDialog

{

private ToolBarButton myPrintButton;

public MyPrintPreviewDialog() : base()

{

Type t = typeof(PrintPreviewDialog);

FieldInfo fi = t.GetField("toolBar1", BindingFlags.Instance |
BindingFlags.NonPublic);

FieldInfo fi2 = t.GetField("printButton", BindingFlags.Instance |
BindingFlags.NonPublic);

ToolBar toolBar1 = (ToolBar)fi.GetValue(this);

ToolBarButton printButton = (ToolBarButton)fi2.GetValue(this);


printButton.Visible = false;


myPrintButton = new ToolBarButton();

myPrintButton.ToolTipText = printButton.ToolTipText;

myPrintButton.ImageIndex = 0;


ToolBarButton[] oldButtons = new ToolBarButton[toolBar1.Buttons.Count-1];

for(int i = 0 ; i < oldButtons.Length ; i++) oldButtons[i] =
toolBar1.Buttons[i+1];


toolBar1.Buttons.Clear();

toolBar1.Buttons.Add(myPrintButton);

for(int i = 0 ; i < oldButtons.Length ; i++)
toolBar1.Buttons.Add(oldButtons[i]);

toolBar1.ButtonClick += new ToolBarButtonClickEventHandler(toolBar1_Click);

}

private void toolBar1_Click(object sender, ToolBarButtonClickEventArgs
eventargs)

{

if (eventargs.Button == myPrintButton)

{

PrintDialog printDialog1 = new PrintDialog();

printDialog1.Document = this.Document;

if (printDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) this.Document.Print();

}

}

}

}

[RobinS]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log

Thanks!
Robin S.
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[Duggi]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log

thats quite interesting!!!

Thanks
-Srinivas.

choupi wrote:

Hello,
>
Is there a way to call a printDialog from a printPreviewDia log (from print
icon for example)?
Indeed, the print icon in the printpreviewdia log prints directly the
document without lunching the printdialog (i.e. the user can't choose the
print parameters).
>
Thanks a lot.

[davidjt52]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log

Thanks for the starting place for the code needed to add the
PrintDialog to PrintPreviewDia log. However, I came across a number of
issues when I tried to implement your code in VS2005 (did you write
your version under VS2003? Just curious...). Here is code that works
under VS2005:

public class MyPrintPreviewDialog :
System.Windows.Forms.PrintPreviewDialog
{
private ToolStripButton myPrintButton;
public MyPrintPreviewDialog ( ) : base ( )
{
Type t = typeof ( PrintPreviewDialog );
FieldInfo fi = t.GetField ( "toolStrip1",
BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic );
FieldInfo fi2 = t.GetField ( "printToolStripButton",
BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic );
ToolStrip toolStrip1 =
( ToolStrip ) fi.GetValue ( this );
ToolStripButton printButton =
( ToolStripButton ) fi2.GetValue ( this );
printButton.Visible = false;
myPrintButton = new ToolStripButton ( );
myPrintButton.ToolTipText = printButton.ToolTipText;
myPrintButton.ImageIndex = 0;

ToolStripItem [ ] oldButtons =
new ToolStripItem [ toolStrip1.Items.Count ];
for ( int i = 0; i < oldButtons.Length; i++ )
oldButtons [ i ] = toolStrip1.Items [ i ];

toolStrip1.Items.Clear ( );
toolStrip1.Items.Add ( myPrintButton );
for ( int i = 0; i < oldButtons.Length; i++ )
toolStrip1.Items.Add ( oldButtons [ i ] );
toolStrip1.ItemClicked +=
new ToolStripItemClickedEventHandler ( toolBar1_Click );
}

private void toolBar1_Click ( object sender,
ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs eventargs )
{
if ( eventargs.ClickedItem == myPrintButton )
{
PrintDialog printDialog1 = new PrintDialog ( );
printDialog1.Document = this.Document;
if ( printDialog1.ShowDialog ( ) == DialogResult.OK )
this.Document.Print ( );
}
}
}

Thanks again for your inspiration.

[yannick.devisscher@gmail.com]

Re: Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDia log

Thx!! this was very useful !

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