Help with Printing

[Eversman]

Hey all, I need a little help with printing. I have it all ready to print and it print fines, but I coded it stupidly. I hard coded the coordinates of where the text is printed, so it only prints correctly on certain printers, on others it prints all messed up. So now I am trying to change it so that it works right with all printers. This is what I have done so far. CPrintDialog dlg(FALSE); CDC dc; #if 0 if (dlg.DoModal() == IDCANCEL) return; dc.Attach(dlg.GetPrinterDC()); #else PRINTDLG prtDlg; AfxGetApp()->GetPrinterDeviceDefaults(&prtDlg); dlg.m_pd.hDevMode = prtDlg.hDevMode; dlg.m_pd.hDevNames = prtDlg.hDevNames; dc.Attach(dlg.CreatePrinterDC()); #endif dc.m_bPrinting = TRUE; CRect printArea; printArea.SetRect(printArea.left/2, printArea.top/2, dc.GetDeviceCaps(HORZRES), dc.GetDeviceCaps(VERTRES)); CString str("Delayed Entry"); dc.DrawText(str, printArea, DT_NOPREFIX | DT_WORDBREAK); When I try that out it compiles fine, but when I print it it doesn't work, can anyone help me out here? Thanks

[David Crow]

Eversman wrote: ...it doesn't work, can anyone help me out here? What doesn't work? What is the code (not) doing? What are you wanting it to do? Be a little more specific instead of just "it doesn't work" and you'll get much more help.

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[Eversman]

Well it doesn't print, it prints the old stuff that I had hard coded in, but when I change it to the new way I just showed, it doesn't print, well maybe it does but it would be off the page when it printed. I am not sure if I am using the GetDeviceCaps and that such correctly.

[David Crow]

Eversman wrote: CRect printArea; printArea.SetRect(printArea.left/2, printArea.top/2, dc.GetDeviceCaps(HORZRES), dc.GetDeviceCaps(VERTRES)); This should raise a red flag. You have a variable printArea that has not been initialized/assigned a value, yet you are trying to use its left and top members. Is that intentional?

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"When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

[Eversman]

Well, I am using this example that I found in the printing section. This is what the tutorial has it as. CRect rect; rect.left = (JRECT.Width() - size.cx)/2; rect.right = rect.left + size.cx; rect.top = (JRECT.Height() - size.cy)/2; rect.bottom = rect.top + size.cy; JDC.DrawText(str, &rect, DT_SINGLELINE); so I kinda modified it to fit what I already had. No where in the example that I see is that stuff initialized. But I need to initialize it to the printer page resolution right? So would I have to initialize it to HORZRES and VERTRES?

[David Crow]

Eversman wrote: No where in the example that I see is that stuff initialized. You're kidding, right? Two-thirds of the lines you've shown are initializing variables. When DrawText() is called, rect has all the right numbers.

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"When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen