PRINTDLG to CPrintInfo

[_Flaviu]

I see ... and there is no solution to retrieve CPrintInfo in C(My)View constructor ?

[Lost User]

The Remarks section on the documentation page states:

CPrintInfo is a structure and does not have a base class.
The framework creates an object of CPrintInfo each time the Print or Print Preview command is chosen and destroys it when the command is completed.

So this control is only available within those two sections of your application, after either menu item is selected. It is possible that you could force this by sending a Print or Print Preview message to your application.

[_Flaviu]

Richard, is there a way to force printpreview to application, in such a way that user see nothing about it, just for retrieving CPrintInfo ? Could you tell me how ?

[Lost User]

Flaviu2 wrote:

Could you tell me how ?

Sorry, no, I have never tried such a thing.

[_Flaviu]

Ok, no pb, I have to digg in ... :)

[_Flaviu]

Richard, I still have a question: I had tried to create manually an CPrintInfo object, just like that:

	CPrintDialog pdlg(FALSE);
	pdlg.GetDefaults();
	HDC hDC = pdlg.CreatePrinterDC();
	if(NULL != hDC)
	{
		m\_pPreviewInfo = new CPrintInfo;
		m\_dcPrint.CreateCompatibleDC(CDC::FromHandle(hDC));
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_rectDraw.left = 0;
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_rectDraw.top = 0;
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_rectDraw.right = m\_dcPrint.GetDeviceCaps(HORZRES);
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_rectDraw.bottom = m\_dcPrint.GetDeviceCaps(VERTRES);
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_bContinuePrinting = TRUE;
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_bDirect = TRUE;
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_bDocObject = FALSE;
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_bPreview = TRUE;
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_lpUserData = NULL;
		m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_pPD = &pdlg;
		m\_pPreviewInfo->SetMinPage(1);
		m\_pPreviewInfo->SetMaxPage(2);
		m\_nPages = m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_nNumPreviewPages;
		m\_pPreviewDC = new CPreviewDC;
		m\_pPreviewDC->SetAttribDC(m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_pPD->m\_pd.hDC);
		m\_sizePrinterPPI.cx = m\_dcPrint.GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSX);
		m\_sizePrinterPPI.cy = m\_dcPrint.GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSY);

		m\_nPages = m\_pPreviewInfo->m\_nNumPreviewPages;
		if (m\_nPages == 0)
			m\_nPages = 1;
		else if (m\_nPages > m\_nMaxPages)
			m\_nPages = m\_nMaxPages;     // Sanity Check!
	}

where m_pPreviewInfo and m_pPreviewDC is protected members of CMyCustomPrintPreview:

CPreviewDC\* m\_pPreviewDC;
CPrintInfo\* m\_pPreviewInfo;

of the first sight, I had do something wrong on the above code ? Because when I am trying to use m_pPreviewInfo object in CMyCustomPrintPreview::OnDraw, is crashing and I get an access violation on:

_AFXEXT_INLINE UINT CPrintInfo::GetMaxPage() const
{ return m_pPD->m_pd.nMaxPage; }

Thank you.

[Lost User]

I suspect that your CPrintDialog object is going out of scope thus causing this error. You should use new to create it before adding it to your CPrintInfo.

[_Flaviu]

Yes, that was it ... :) Thank you. I am go with one step further ... I come beck soon.

[_Flaviu]

Yes, I had created dinamically (with new), but when I am trying to clean up in my class destructor, it crashing ...

CPrintPreview::~CPrintPreview
{
if(NULL != m_pPrintDlg)
delete m_pPrintDlg; // crash ! <----
}

weird ...

[Lost User]

Are you sure that your CPrintInfo object still exists at this point?

[_Flaviu]

I am sure that is not null ... is not enough ? How can assure of CPrintInfo existence ?

[Lost User]

It should be enough, but if it has somehow been corrupted, or already deleted then you will get a crash. The only way to check is via the debugger.

[_Flaviu]

Thank you Richard, deleteing CPrintInfo object is excluded, the destructor is the only place where I explicity delete this object ... I have to dig in ...