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Help Needed WIth Printing BN.NET 2005I am getting into printing with VB.NET 2005 and want to implement the usual capability that a user can select a selection of pages. I have a report that is generated by my application that if the user wants all pages will produce 3 pages. I want to offer the user the ability to select via the print dialog that only pages 1 and 2 of it are printed or possibly pages 1 and 3 but not 2. At the moment I can produce all three pages either as a print without a preview, or via a print preview. I have printing routine that handles the PrintPage event of the document object used for this report. My issue is how do I work out when the print handler routine is called which of the pages is being printed at the time, ideally I want to have a select case statement in my printing routine that says: Select Case MyDoc.PrinterSettings.PrintRange.PageNumber Case 1 'Printing command for page 1 Case 2 'Printing command for page 1 Case 2 'Printing command for page 1 End Select I feel like I am missing something and am probably making this mor ecomplicated than it is? Any help, or links to web sources that describe the process would be appreciated. I have 3 books on programming in VB.NET and none of them cover the subject of how you deal with printing a selection of pages. I also cannot find anything by googling that deals with this issue. Siv Hi,
I'll try that again with a bit more attention paid to what I typed: It should have read: I am getting into printing with VB.NET 2005 and want to implement the usual capability that a user can select a selection of pages. I have a report that is generated by my application that if the user wants all pages will produce 3 pages. I want to offer the user the ability to select via the print dialog that only pages 1 and 2 of it are printed or possibly pages 1 and 3 but not 2. At the moment I can produce all three pages either as a print without a preview, or via a print preview. I have printing routine that handles the PrintPage event of the document object used for this report. My issue is how do I work out when the print handler routine is called which of the pages is being printed at the time, ideally I want to have a select case statement in my printing routine that says: Select Case MyDoc.PrinterSettings.PrintRange.PageNumber 'I know PageNumber doesn't exist, but there must be a way of getting it?? Case 1 'Printing commands for page 1 Case 2 'Printing commands for page 2 Case 2 'Printing commands for page 3 End Select I feel like I am missing something and am probably making this more complicated than it is? Any help, or links to web sources that describe the process would be appreciated. I have 3 books on programming in VB.NET and none of them cover the subject of how you deal with printing a selection of pages. I also cannot find anything by googling that deals with this issue. Siv
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"Siv" <dotnet@remove_me.sivill.com> wrote in message Look in Help under the PrintDocument's PrinterSettings:news:OG$lbHMVGHA.5248@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > Hi, > I'll try that again with a bit more attention paid to what I typed: > It should have read: > > I am getting into printing with VB.NET 2005 and want to implement the > usual > capability that a user can select a selection of pages. I have a report > that is generated by my application that if the user wants all pages will > produce 3 pages. I want to offer the user the ability to select via the > print dialog that only pages 1 and 2 of it are printed or possibly pages 1 > and 3 but not 2. > > At the moment I can produce all three pages either as a print without a > preview, or via a print preview. > > I have printing routine that handles the PrintPage event of the document > object used for this report. > > My issue is how do I work out when the print handler routine is called > which > of the pages is being printed at the time, ideally I want to have a select > case statement in my printing routine that says: > > Select Case MyDoc.PrinterSettings.PrintRange.PageNumber > 'I know PageNumber doesn't exist, but there must be a way of getting > it?? > Case 1 > 'Printing commands for page 1 > Case 2 > 'Printing commands for page 2 > Case 2 > 'Printing commands for page 3 > End Select > > I feel like I am missing something and am probably making this more > complicated than it is? > > Any help, or links to web sources that describe the process would be > appreciated. I have 3 books on programming in VB.NET and none of them > cover > the subject of how you deal with printing a selection of pages. I also > cannot find anything by googling that deals with this issue. > > Siv PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.PrintRange = According to Intelisense, gets or sets the number of pages the user wants to print. james James,
I did, and I can't get the range into an array, no matter what I try it gives me syntax errors about the assignment from the PrintSettings to my array. Also even if I could get the array, I am struggling to understand how I can find out what page I am currently processing, there is no "this handler is being called by the printing of page 2" type properties that I can find? I can maintain my own static variable so I know how many times the routine has been entered, but if we are printing say a 5 page document (if the user were to print all the pages), but actually decides to go for 1,3,5 that method doesn't cut it because when the 2nd page is being printed, it is actually page 3 that should be produced. I am beginning to think I have got this printing thing "arse about face", perhaps I should preprocess the page data in code and thus ensure that what is sent to the printer is always a contiguous stream of pages even though in reality that is 1,3,5 of the total report. I don't want to use Crystal as I have used it in the past and always spent days designing a report that isn't quite how I want it to be and I always seem to hit a brick wall with it and end up throwing away what I have done. Also I would really like to get to the bottom of printing directly within the .NET framework as I feel I am nearly there but just a few annoying niggles. Siv Show quoteHide quote "james" <jjames700REMOV***@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:%23mdSKqNVGHA.5760@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > > "Siv" <dotnet@remove_me.sivill.com> wrote in message > news:OG$lbHMVGHA.5248@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... >> Hi, >> I'll try that again with a bit more attention paid to what I typed: >> It should have read: >> >> I am getting into printing with VB.NET 2005 and want to implement the >> usual >> capability that a user can select a selection of pages. I have a report >> that is generated by my application that if the user wants all pages will >> produce 3 pages. I want to offer the user the ability to select via the >> print dialog that only pages 1 and 2 of it are printed or possibly pages >> 1 >> and 3 but not 2. >> >> At the moment I can produce all three pages either as a print without a >> preview, or via a print preview. >> >> I have printing routine that handles the PrintPage event of the document >> object used for this report. >> >> My issue is how do I work out when the print handler routine is called >> which >> of the pages is being printed at the time, ideally I want to have a >> select >> case statement in my printing routine that says: >> >> Select Case MyDoc.PrinterSettings.PrintRange.PageNumber >> 'I know PageNumber doesn't exist, but there must be a way of getting >> it?? >> Case 1 >> 'Printing commands for page 1 >> Case 2 >> 'Printing commands for page 2 >> Case 2 >> 'Printing commands for page 3 >> End Select >> >> I feel like I am missing something and am probably making this more >> complicated than it is? >> >> Any help, or links to web sources that describe the process would be >> appreciated. I have 3 books on programming in VB.NET and none of them >> cover >> the subject of how you deal with printing a selection of pages. I also >> cannot find anything by googling that deals with this issue. >> >> Siv > > > Look in Help under the PrintDocument's PrinterSettings: > > PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.PrintRange = According to Intelisense, > gets or sets the number of pages the user wants to print. > > james > > > > > > Siv, sorry I didn't read your post better than I did. Or I would have
noticed that you did try the PrintRange settings. I too have been working with printing in VB2005 ( and 2003) and have found passing the PrintDialog Settings to be a bit problematic. At times, it seems I can almost make it work and then I hit an error. What is confusing to me is the Inteli-Sense says that some of those properties both GET & SET values. But, when I try to set values using values from the PageSetupDialog, I run into errors like you do. I will let you know if I have any more luck with it. I a currently trying something different. james Show quoteHide quote "Siv" <dotnet@remove_me.sivill.com> wrote in message news:uURrl2NVGHA.5172@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... > James, > > I did, and I can't get the range into an array, no matter what I try it > gives me syntax errors about the assignment from the PrintSettings to my > array. > > Also even if I could get the array, I am struggling to understand how I > can find out what page I am currently processing, there is no "this > handler is being called by the printing of page 2" type properties that I > can find? > > I can maintain my own static variable so I know how many times the routine > has been entered, but if we are printing say a 5 page document (if the > user were to print all the pages), but actually decides to go for 1,3,5 > that method doesn't cut it because when the 2nd page is being printed, it > is actually page 3 that should be produced. > > I am beginning to think I have got this printing thing "arse about face", > perhaps I should preprocess the page data in code and thus ensure that > what is sent to the printer is always a contiguous stream of pages even > though in reality that is 1,3,5 of the total report. > > I don't want to use Crystal as I have used it in the past and always spent > days designing a report that isn't quite how I want it to be and I always > seem to hit a brick wall with it and end up throwing away what I have > done. Also I would really like to get to the bottom of printing directly > within the .NET framework as I feel I am nearly there but just a few > annoying niggles. > > Siv > > > > "james" <jjames700REMOV***@earthlink.net> wrote in message > news:%23mdSKqNVGHA.5760@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... >> >> "Siv" <dotnet@remove_me.sivill.com> wrote in message >> news:OG$lbHMVGHA.5248@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... >>> Hi, >>> I'll try that again with a bit more attention paid to what I typed: >>> It should have read: >>> >>> I am getting into printing with VB.NET 2005 and want to implement the >>> usual >>> capability that a user can select a selection of pages. I have a report >>> that is generated by my application that if the user wants all pages >>> will >>> produce 3 pages. I want to offer the user the ability to select via the >>> print dialog that only pages 1 and 2 of it are printed or possibly pages >>> 1 >>> and 3 but not 2. >>> >>> At the moment I can produce all three pages either as a print without a >>> preview, or via a print preview. >>> >>> I have printing routine that handles the PrintPage event of the document >>> object used for this report. >>> >>> My issue is how do I work out when the print handler routine is called >>> which >>> of the pages is being printed at the time, ideally I want to have a >>> select >>> case statement in my printing routine that says: >>> >>> Select Case MyDoc.PrinterSettings.PrintRange.PageNumber >>> 'I know PageNumber doesn't exist, but there must be a way of getting >>> it?? >>> Case 1 >>> 'Printing commands for page 1 >>> Case 2 >>> 'Printing commands for page 2 >>> Case 2 >>> 'Printing commands for page 3 >>> End Select >>> >>> I feel like I am missing something and am probably making this more >>> complicated than it is? >>> >>> Any help, or links to web sources that describe the process would be >>> appreciated. I have 3 books on programming in VB.NET and none of them >>> cover >>> the subject of how you deal with printing a selection of pages. I also >>> cannot find anything by googling that deals with this issue. >>> >>> Siv >> >> >> Look in Help under the PrintDocument's PrinterSettings: >> >> PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.PrintRange = According to Intelisense, >> gets or sets the number of pages the user wants to print. >> >> james >> >> >> >> >> >> > > Siv,
If I look at the PrinterSettings I get back from a PrintDialog when I set AllowSomePages I get a FromPage and a ToPage property set with the values I enter. If you pass this PrinterSettings to your PrintDocument you should have the pages you want using your case statement. I don't normally use this for anything as my users are mostly printing the reports for archival purposes and want the whole document. I always pass the PrinterSettings from the PrintDialog to the PrintDocument to avoid having to set a lot of properties. Ron Allen Show quoteHide quote "Siv" <dotnet@remove_me.sivill.com> wrote in message news:OG$lbHMVGHA.5248@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > Hi, > I'll try that again with a bit more attention paid to what I typed: > It should have read: > > I am getting into printing with VB.NET 2005 and want to implement the > usual > capability that a user can select a selection of pages. I have a report > that is generated by my application that if the user wants all pages will > produce 3 pages. I want to offer the user the ability to select via the > print dialog that only pages 1 and 2 of it are printed or possibly pages 1 > and 3 but not 2. > > At the moment I can produce all three pages either as a print without a > preview, or via a print preview. > > I have printing routine that handles the PrintPage event of the document > object used for this report. > > My issue is how do I work out when the print handler routine is called > which > of the pages is being printed at the time, ideally I want to have a select > case statement in my printing routine that says: > > Select Case MyDoc.PrinterSettings.PrintRange.PageNumber > 'I know PageNumber doesn't exist, but there must be a way of getting > it?? > Case 1 > 'Printing commands for page 1 > Case 2 > 'Printing commands for page 2 > Case 2 > 'Printing commands for page 3 > End Select > > I feel like I am missing something and am probably making this more > complicated than it is? > > Any help, or links to web sources that describe the process would be > appreciated. I have 3 books on programming in VB.NET and none of them > cover > the subject of how you deal with printing a selection of pages. I also > cannot find anything by googling that deals with this issue. > > Siv > > Ron,
I think I was confusing the feature you get in Word and Excel where you can select a range like "1,3,7,10" or "1 to 5, 9", in fact that "selection" option doesn't offer anything when you click the option button in the dialog, I thought when you enabled this it would offer you a text box to enter your selection of pages. I suspect you can do it but I haven't found how yet. Once I had got that far, I hit another snag in that I don't think there is any easy way whilst printing is going on for you to know which of the selection has caused the print handler routine to trigger. I guess MS must use the selection to preprocess the whole print job before calling the print routine, so the print routine is always passed a contiguous set of pages even though they might actually be pages 1,3,5 and 9 or whatever from the possible set of pages. When you are in the print handler you are just dealing with what has been sent, you shouldn't be trying to alter the order of things within that appears to be the way it should be approached. If you are dealing with a from and to range, that is easier to be handled within the print routine itself as you can get the from and to values as you say and then it is easy to work out what should be printed from that. If anyone else knows a better way to do a selection I would be interested, I suppose you could write a custome print dialog rather than using the standard one. Thanks for your response. Siv Show quoteHide quote "Ron Allen" <RonAllen@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message news:OvcX$8aVGHA.4764@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > Siv, > If I look at the PrinterSettings I get back from a PrintDialog when I > set AllowSomePages I get a FromPage and a ToPage property set with the > values I enter. If you pass this PrinterSettings to your PrintDocument > you should have the pages you want using your case statement. I don't > normally use this for anything as my users are mostly printing the reports > for archival purposes and want the whole document. > > I always pass the PrinterSettings from the PrintDialog to the > PrintDocument to avoid having to set a lot of properties. > > Ron Allen > "Siv" <dotnet@remove_me.sivill.com> wrote in message > news:OG$lbHMVGHA.5248@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... >> Hi, >> I'll try that again with a bit more attention paid to what I typed: >> It should have read: >> >> I am getting into printing with VB.NET 2005 and want to implement the >> usual >> capability that a user can select a selection of pages. I have a report >> that is generated by my application that if the user wants all pages will >> produce 3 pages. I want to offer the user the ability to select via the >> print dialog that only pages 1 and 2 of it are printed or possibly pages >> 1 >> and 3 but not 2. >> >> At the moment I can produce all three pages either as a print without a >> preview, or via a print preview. >> >> I have printing routine that handles the PrintPage event of the document >> object used for this report. >> >> My issue is how do I work out when the print handler routine is called >> which >> of the pages is being printed at the time, ideally I want to have a >> select >> case statement in my printing routine that says: >> >> Select Case MyDoc.PrinterSettings.PrintRange.PageNumber >> 'I know PageNumber doesn't exist, but there must be a way of getting >> it?? >> Case 1 >> 'Printing commands for page 1 >> Case 2 >> 'Printing commands for page 2 >> Case 2 >> 'Printing commands for page 3 >> End Select >> >> I feel like I am missing something and am probably making this more >> complicated than it is? >> >> Any help, or links to web sources that describe the process would be >> appreciated. I have 3 books on programming in VB.NET and none of them >> cover >> the subject of how you deal with printing a selection of pages. I also >> cannot find anything by googling that deals with this issue. >> >> Siv >> >> > > 
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