Printing controls

[anders]

Hi!

I have a panel formed as an A4-page, in this panel I have som labels,
pictureboxes and a datagrid. How can I print the complete panel vith all it's
controls?

Regards
Anders Aleborg

[Rakesh Rajan]

Hi Anders,

Try this link from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...intsupport.asp

There are a number of samples including one on datagrid as well.

HTH,
Rakesh Rajan

"an****@aleborg .se" wrote:

Hi!

I have a panel formed as an A4-page, in this panel I have som labels,
pictureboxes and a datagrid. How can I print the complete panel vith all it's
controls?

Regards
Anders Aleborg

[anders]

All I can find is how to print a complete form, text or graphics not anything
about different controls. I've managed to print a datagrid but it only ends
up in the left corner, not where I tried to place it using location.

"Rakesh Rajan" wrote:

Hi Anders,

Try this link from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...intsupport.asp

There are a number of samples including one on datagrid as well.

HTH,
Rakesh Rajan

"an****@aleborg .se" wrote:

Hi!

I have a panel formed as an A4-page, in this panel I have som labels,
pictureboxes and a datagrid. How can I print the complete panel vith all it's
controls?

Regards
Anders Aleborg

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Anders,

First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue. From
your description, I understand that you need to print the controls in the
panel to a printer. If there is any misunderstandin g, please feel free to
let me know.

Based on my experience, we have to achieve this with 2 step. First, we've
got to convert the panel control to a bitmap image. Second, we print it to
the printer.

Here is a code snippet that can do the convertion from certain control to a
bitmap.

Private Sub MenuItem2_Selec t(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles MenuItem2.Selec t
Dim g1 As Graphics
g1 = Me.CreateGraphi cs()
Dim MyImage As Image
MyImage = New Bitmap(Me.Width , Me.Height, g1)
Dim a As Int32
a = Me.Height
Dim g2 As Graphics
g2 = Graphics.FromIm age(MyImage)
Dim dc1 As IntPtr
dc1 = g1.GetHdc()
Dim dc2 As IntPtr
dc2 = g2.GetHdc()
BitBlt(dc2, 0, 0, Me.Width, Me.Height, dc1, -4,
Me.ClientRectan gle.Height - Me.Height + 4, 13369376)
g1.ReleaseHdc(d c1)
g2.ReleaseHdc(d c2)
Dim p As Point
p.X = Me.MousePositio n.X - Me.Location.X
p.Y = Me.MousePositio n.Y - Me.Location.Y
Me.Cursor.Draw( g2, New Rectangle(p, Me.Cursor.Size) )
MyImage.Save("c :\saved.jpg", Drawing.Imaging .ImageFormat.Jp eg)
MessageBox.Show ("Finished Saving Image")
End Sub

Private Declare Auto Function BitBlt Lib "GDI32.DLL" _
(ByVal hdcDest As IntPtr, ByVal nXDest As Integer, _
ByVal nYDest As Integer, ByVal nWidth As Integer, _
ByVal nHeight As Integer, ByVal hdcSrc As IntPtr, _
ByVal nXSrc As Integer, ByVal nYSrc As Integer, _
ByVal dwRop As Int32) As Boolean

If you just need to print it, you needn't save it to a file. Just pass it
to print document as the MSDN document mentioned that Rakesh provided.

HTH.

Kevin Yu
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[anders]

Hi Kevin, thanks!
Correct me if I'm wrong, your code saves the form including the mousepointer
to a file :)
So let's say I need to get a panel into the image instead and some labels,
how do I add the labels to the image?
The code in C# without the mousepointer:

Graphics g1 = this.CreateGrap hics();
Image MyImage = new Bitmap(panel1.W idth,panel1.Hei ght,g1);
int a = panel1.Height;

Graphics g2 = Graphics.FromIm age(MyImage);
System.IntPtr dc1 = g1.GetHdc();
System.IntPtr dc2 = g2.GetHdc();
BitBlt(dc2, 0, 0, panel1.Width, panel1.Height, dc1, -4,
this.ClientRect angle.Height - panel1.Height + 4, 13369376);
g1.ReleaseHdc(d c1);
g2.ReleaseHdc(d c2);

How do I translate this to C#?
Private Declare Auto Function BitBlt Lib "GDI32.DLL" _
(ByVal hdcDest As IntPtr, ByVal nXDest As Integer, _
ByVal nYDest As Integer, ByVal nWidth As Integer, _
ByVal nHeight As Integer, ByVal hdcSrc As IntPtr, _
ByVal nXSrc As Integer, ByVal nYSrc As Integer, _
ByVal dwRop As Int32) As Boolean

Regards
Anders ALeborg

"Kevin Yu [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Anders,

First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue. From
your description, I understand that you need to print the controls in the
panel to a printer. If there is any misunderstandin g, please feel free to
let me know.

Based on my experience, we have to achieve this with 2 step. First, we've
got to convert the panel control to a bitmap image. Second, we print it to
the printer.

Here is a code snippet that can do the convertion from certain control to a
bitmap.

Private Sub MenuItem2_Selec t(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles MenuItem2.Selec t
Dim g1 As Graphics
g1 = Me.CreateGraphi cs()
Dim MyImage As Image
MyImage = New Bitmap(Me.Width , Me.Height, g1)
Dim a As Int32
a = Me.Height
Dim g2 As Graphics
g2 = Graphics.FromIm age(MyImage)
Dim dc1 As IntPtr
dc1 = g1.GetHdc()
Dim dc2 As IntPtr
dc2 = g2.GetHdc()
BitBlt(dc2, 0, 0, Me.Width, Me.Height, dc1, -4,
Me.ClientRectan gle.Height - Me.Height + 4, 13369376)
g1.ReleaseHdc(d c1)
g2.ReleaseHdc(d c2)
Dim p As Point
p.X = Me.MousePositio n.X - Me.Location.X
p.Y = Me.MousePositio n.Y - Me.Location.Y
Me.Cursor.Draw( g2, New Rectangle(p, Me.Cursor.Size) )
MyImage.Save("c :\saved.jpg", Drawing.Imaging .ImageFormat.Jp eg)
MessageBox.Show ("Finished Saving Image")
End Sub

Private Declare Auto Function BitBlt Lib "GDI32.DLL" _
(ByVal hdcDest As IntPtr, ByVal nXDest As Integer, _
ByVal nYDest As Integer, ByVal nWidth As Integer, _
ByVal nHeight As Integer, ByVal hdcSrc As IntPtr, _
ByVal nXSrc As Integer, ByVal nYSrc As Integer, _
ByVal dwRop As Int32) As Boolean

If you just need to print it, you needn't save it to a file. Just pass it
to print document as the MSDN document mentioned that Rakesh provided.

HTH.

Kevin Yu
=======
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[[MSFT]]

Hi Anders,

For defination in C#:

[DllImport("gdi3 2.dll", ExactSpelling=t rue, SetLastError=tr ue)]
public static extern Bool BitBlt(
IntPtr hObject,
int nXDest, int nYDest,
int nWidth, int nHeight,
IntPtr hObjSource, int nXSrc, int nYSrc,
int dwRop);
Luke

[anders]

Hi!

I solved it in another way:

private void DrawAll(Graphic s g)
{
RectangleF srcRect = new Rectangle(0, 0, this.panel1.Wid th,
panel1.Height);
int nWidth = 802;
int nHeight = 1104;
RectangleF destRect = new Rectangle(0, 0, nWidth, nHeight);

float scalex = destRect.Width/this.panel1.Wid th;
float scaley = destRect.Height/this.panel1.Hei ght;

GraphicsUnit gu = GraphicsUnit.Pi xel;
RectangleF scaledRectangle ;
Brush br = new
System.Drawing. SolidBrush(Colo r.FromArgb(((Sy stem.Byte)(74)) ,
((System.Byte)( 74)), ((System.Byte)( 74))));

scaledRectangle = GetScaledRectan gle(scalex, scaley, pictureBox1.Bou nds);
Image my1Image = (Image)pictureB ox1.Image.Clone ();
g.DrawImage(my1 Image, scaledRectangle ,pictureBox1.Im age.GetBounds(r ef
gu), GraphicsUnit.Pi xel);

scaledRectangle = GetScaledRectan gle(scalex, scaley, pictureBox2.Bou nds);
Image my2Image = (Image)pictureB ox2.Image.Clone ();
g.DrawImage(my2 Image, scaledRectangle ,pictureBox2.Im age.GetBounds(r ef
gu), GraphicsUnit.Pi xel);

scaledRectangle = GetScaledRectan gle(scalex, scaley, pictureBox3.Bou nds);
Image my3Image = (Image)pictureB ox3.Image.Clone ();
g.DrawImage(my3 Image, scaledRectangle ,pictureBox3.Im age.GetBounds(r ef
gu), GraphicsUnit.Pi xel);

if(pictureBox4. Visible && pictureBox5.Vis ible)
{
scaledRectangle = GetScaledRectan gle(scalex, scaley, pictureBox4.Bou nds);
Image my4Image = (Image)pictureB ox4.Image.Clone ();
g.DrawImage(my4 Image, scaledRectangle ,pictureBox4.Im age.GetBounds(r ef
gu), GraphicsUnit.Pi xel);

scaledRectangle = GetScaledRectan gle(scalex, scaley, pictureBox5.Bou nds);
Image my5Image = (Image)pictureB ox5.Image.Clone ();
g.DrawImage(my5 Image, scaledRectangle ,pictureBox5.Im age.GetBounds(r ef
gu), GraphicsUnit.Pi xel);
}

foreach(Control x in this.panel1.Con trols)
{
if(x.GetType(). ToString() == "System.Windows .Forms.Label" && x.Visible)
{
Label theText = (Label)x;
x.BringToFront( );
StringFormat drawFormat = new StringFormat();
if(theText.Text Align.ToString( ) == "TopRight")
{
drawFormat.Alig nment = StringAlignment .Far;
g.DrawString(th eText.Text, theText.Font,br ,
(theText.Bounds .Left+theText.W idth+2)*scalex, theText.Bounds. Top * scaley,
drawFormat);
}
else if(theText.Text Align.ToString( ) == "TopCenter" )
{
drawFormat.Alig nment = StringAlignment .Center;
g.DrawString(th eText.Text, theText.Font,br ,
(theText.Bounds .Left+(theText. Width/2))*scalex, theText.Bounds. Top * scaley,
drawFormat);
}
else
g.DrawString(th eText.Text, theText.Font,br ,
theText.Bounds. Left*scalex, theText.Bounds. Top * scaley, drawFormat);
}
}
"[MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Anders,

For defination in C#:

[DllImport("gdi3 2.dll", ExactSpelling=t rue, SetLastError=tr ue)]
public static extern Bool BitBlt(
IntPtr hObject,
int nXDest, int nYDest,
int nWidth, int nHeight,
IntPtr hObjSource, int nXSrc, int nYSrc,
int dwRop);
Luke

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Anders,

It was nice to hear that you have had the problem resolved. Thanks for
sharing your experience with all the people here. If you have any
questions, please feel free to post them in the community.

Kevin Yu
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