Print/preview graphical reports

[Mike Doty]

How do you print/preview graphical reports?

DDOC does an excellent job on text only reports.

Does QHTML give this ability?
Would Internet Explorer automation do this?

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=40921

Suggestion to PowerBASIC:
Greatly expand XPRINT by supporting a graphical file format.

Jose Roca's mini browser makes an excellent report viewer
with the added ability to have your own browser!

Highly suggested download at: http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smffo...p?topic=2826.0

Printing a web page without a dialog even works.
I'm surprised because I thought that was a security issue.

Can't wait to move to PBFORMS!

 CASE %IDM_PRINT
               pIWebBrowser2 = OC_GetDispatch(GetDlgItem(hWnd, %IDC_IEWB))
               IF ISOBJECT(pIWebBrowser2) THEN
                  REM pIWebBrowser2.ExecWB %OLECMDID_PRINT, %OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER
                  pIWebBrowser2.ExecWB %OLECMDID_PRINT, %OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER
                  pIWebBrowser2 = NOTHING
               END IF
               EXIT FUNCTION

[Christopher Carroll]

Mike

See dpAddGraphic and dpDrawGraphic in ddoc. Bitmaps only (and jpegs if ddoc_jpg.dll installed).

[Mike Doty]

I definitely will!
Thank you very much. Never saw the jpg support.

Using the browser code above and creating your app
as html sure has some advantages and can web enable it.

[Fred Buffington]

Mike, using the Graphic/Xprint statements, a print preview can be written.

There should be several examples of print preview including one written by the
PB staff. That one, however, just shows text.

What I did was to write the report to a file using simple script-like approach. Then
when preview and/or printing read the file and interpret it using either Graphic or
Xprint statements.