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| Submitted on: 8/1/2002 8:54:13 AM
By: Morgan Haueisen
Level: Advanced
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By 101 Users
Compatibility:VB 5.0, VB 6.0
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| | | Updated: 5-16-03 (Added Fit-To-Page). This code gives you the ability to add print previewing to you application and the tools to allow you to make nice looking printed reports. You can fix the printing options such as paper orientation and preview/screen or allow the user to change them when running the report. Use it to design reports without wasting all that paper. I have tried to make this as simple as possible so you can add it to your existing projects and with only a little effort to change your reports. I have never before asked for votes, but I have put a lot of time into this and would appreciate your feedback (please be kind).
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8/1/2002 9:22:08 AM:Rick Strickland
Great Job, I like it alot...Will
certainly be in my toolbox
Thanks
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8/1/2002 9:39:40 AM:John Galanopoulos
Quality work. 5 from me. Keep up.
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8/1/2002 4:58:01 PM:Badr Almodarra
5 globes
keep up great work
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8/1/2002 5:34:19 PM:Daniel Camacho
Nice something lots of people are
looking for... ***** from me..... Good
luck...
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8/1/2002 7:01:40 PM:Turki A. Umairan
Wonderful.
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8/1/2002 11:25:43 PM:Vic Richardson
First Class!
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8/2/2002 5:39:43 AM:Jørgen Levesen
Thanks for the posting, this deserves
to win this month contest. I have a
question though: Do you plan i the near
future to incorporate printing of
pictures as well as text as part of the
document ?
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8/2/2002 8:45:41 AM:joyprakash saikia
Hi Morgan,
Its Great Code and
Excellent Inovative Approach for
printing. So here is my 5 globes for
you.
I've Gathered some facts on
it:
1) The Code is Excellent and
Simplest to understand. Thank you for
sharing it.
Some Suggestions:
1)It
throws an error on While the Printer is
Changed through the ComboBox on the
FrmPrinterSetup due to "Printer.Duplex"
Property.
2) As we know that
"Doevents" statment is most
unpredictable and resource consuming.
From My point of view, If you can
reduce the No of "Doevents" (Now it is
total 10), then we see expected
behaviour on Compiled Mode.
3)In
'FontTransparent' of
'clsMultiPgPreview' , the 'vNewValue'
is never used for Assigning It.
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8/2/2002 11:20:44 AM:James W Pyle, III
Very nice job.
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8/2/2002 4:33:45 PM:JF
Very good work, keep on coding...
5
from me
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8/2/2002 6:11:42 PM:Ulli
You have a Recursive Call in pPrint.
Try setting .Orientation = PagePortrait
in Command2_Click
But good work
otherwise, keep it up...
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8/3/2002 6:54:03 AM:Tahir M. Akram
Nice and great effort. 5 out 5.
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8/3/2002 10:46:48 AM:Morgan Haueisen
Thanks for the feed back I really do
appreciate it. I changed the code to
fix the recusive call in pPrint. I did
not think to prevent the programmer
from entering a tab location larger
then the page. I have also made the
changes suggested by joyprakash saikia.
Thanks again for your assistance.
Morgan
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8/3/2002 10:26:48 PM:R. Watson
Excellent code!! Just one suggestion
for future enhancement. As of now, it
prints in bitmap (choppy chars).
Although OK for preview (it being a
bitmap) on the actual printing you
should convert it to a richtext so it
can be "drawn" as text (sharp, true
type text!). Otherwise great job!!
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8/4/2002 10:02:25 AM:michael doering
Hello Morgan,
>
I think this is a
good experiment
and I search a lot of
months for a 'small' print-preview
unfortunately
each page is a very big
bitmap ~2,5 MB,
is this the ultimative
solution ?
'...
I`m not sure, also I
have no better suggestion.
I hope
other people`s have any
suggestion.
Anyway I voted with 5
globes.
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8/5/2002 8:42:01 AM:Morgan Haueisen
I started to write the preview using
RTF files and Word but I ran into some
problems.
Since I was not dealing with
an object such as a printer or picture
box I could not get a lot of
information I needed.
For example:
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There was no way to find out how long
the printed text was going to be.
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There was no way to position text
vertically on a page or even know where
on the page you were
* Did not know
printable area (page height or
width).
3. Using RTF Codes became very
complicated, since there was no way to
predict how or what combination of
codes were going to be used.
If
anyone knows a way to solve these
problems, I would love to here
them.
Thanks again for your
interest,
Morgan Haueisen
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8/5/2002 6:33:02 PM:JF
I find your work of an exceptional
quality.It is very well commented, very
useful, it leaves the place for
modification for private use. For your
good work, and the numerous hours which
you had to spend there, I wish you the
price for the month contest!
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8/14/2002 12:46:54 PM:zeff calilung
cool! its nice.
could you send me a
tutorial of your (Print-Preview and
More)program
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8/21/2002 7:51:13 AM:Alaeddin Hallak
long awaited... great work
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10/1/2002 5:12:02 PM:
Good job, dude!
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10/6/2002 9:10:45 PM:
Nice work. finally this will help me
organize my reports. thanks. mabuhay
and more power
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10/30/2002 7:30:23 PM:Danny J.
Personaly, do you want to work with
me?
Danny J.
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10/30/2002 8:34:40 PM:
Nice, much cleaner than the one i had
to write recently (despite all the
niggles above).
Shall be replacing
some bits from my shabby effort with
some bits out of this , much better,
one... Keep it up ..
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10/31/2002 2:19:37 AM:
What is the utility of this ? All page
are statically created inside the code.
What about taking a RichTextBox for
source ? That will be very more useful !
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11/1/2002 12:16:38 AM:Ramu
This is one of the very best I've seen
on PSC, keep up the good work
I'll
be glad if you could do something on
the printing after preview, the bmps
give a bad quality of printing. This
will be the best ever.
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11/7/2002 10:10:58 AM:Brian!!
Verry nice code, i have been looking
for something like this 5 from me
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11/7/2002 6:58:27 PM:
This code is amazing....
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12/20/2002 6:38:38 PM:
Excellent, just the approach that i was
looking for, prefesionnal quality. Keep
up the good work
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1/24/2003 10:30:11 AM:
Excellent! A very good solution to a
complex problem. In response to
others...RTF as far as I know is
impossible to overlay text on graphics,
If someone knows how to do that I'd
like to know. This is a great start to
a great print engine.
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2/6/2003 3:10:29 AM:SanjayKattimani
Excellent code!!! Keep it up, God bless
you :)
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2/6/2003 12:09:17 PM:
Good stuff, keep it up. 5 stars from me
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2/6/2003 12:11:38 PM:
Excellent code. Keep it up.
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2/9/2003 3:23:12 AM:Dhaval Faria
really an excellent job.. 5 globes from
me.
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4/13/2003 5:08:14 AM:
This is one super piece of coding.
5
***** from me.
I have seen a lot of
print preview solutions for VB, but
this is simply one of the
best....because you get alle the
functionality of the build in Printer
object.
JUST GREAT !!!
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4/30/2003 10:45:52 PM:
After searching and trying various ways
of performing Print Preview for two
days, I had a problem getting the
system up and running. As it turned
out, I was trying to make it too
difficult. The system works and works
well. It provides a set of tools for
producing almost any kind of report you
choose to do. The instructions are
clear and simple. The code examples
are handy and easy to follow. The
results are outstanding. I give the
system five globes, only because there
is nothing more that I can give it,
other than credits in the applications
that I work on. Thanks for the good
work.
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5/1/2003 10:41:33 AM:
Great, just what i was looking for !
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