Re: [wxperl-users] Printing demo

[Nick J. <sk...@er...>]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Mark Wardell wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been trying to implement printing in wxPerl. I tried running the
> printing module in the samples but it crashes on my machine (no Perl
> error) when I try and preview. The print button does not seem to do
> anything at all.
>
> Has anyone else experienced the same or got the demo to work lately?
> Does anyone have a working sample/snippet of code. I have also looked at
> the printing.cpp sample from the wxWindows source for a guide for my
> application but I keep getting this same crash.
>
> I am using wxPerl 0.14 (I tried 0.13 but with same problems), wxWindows
> 2.4, AS Perl 5.8.805
>

I haven't used the demo to print, but I have used Wx::HtmlEasyPrinting and
that worked fine. It was with wxPerl 0.12 and ActivePerl 5.6 though so
YMMV.

Try Wx::HtmlEasyPrinting. I don't have a snippet to hand but I thought it
was very simple. AFAIK you just supply it with HTML code, either as a
string or filename and it prints that. Obviously it uses Wx::Html to
render but it does a reasonable job (even includes basic table support).
I think the total code to print something with that class was about 3
lines. It really does make it easy, I was *very* impressed.

- Nick