Access to a printDialog from a PrintPreviewDialog

[choupi]

Hello,

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

Thanks a lot.

[Bruce Wood]

choupi wrote:

Hello,

Is there a way to call a printDialog from a printPreviewDialog (from print
icon for example)?
Indeed, the print icon in the printpreviewdialog 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
OnPrintButtonClick, 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
PrintButtonEnabled property or something like that.

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

[choupi]

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

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>
choupi wrote:

>Hello,

Is there a way to call a printDialog from a printPreviewDialog (from
print
icon for example)?
Indeed, the print icon in the printpreviewdialog 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
OnPrintButtonClick, 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
PrintButtonEnabled property or something like that.

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

[choupi]

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

Thanks.

[RobinS]

We're interested!
Robin S.
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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]

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]

Thanks!
Robin S.
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[Duggi]

thats quite interesting!!!

Thanks
-Srinivas.

choupi wrote:

Hello,

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

Thanks a lot.

[davidjt52]

Thanks for the starting place for the code needed to add the
PrintDialog to PrintPreviewDialog. 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]

Thx!! this was very useful !

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