Development/Tutorials/Printing Hello World
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Port to KF5The mission
Print Hello World on your printer. There will be no more dialog to confirm how many pages you want or the like.
The files
main.cpp
#include <qpainter.h>
#include <qprinter.h>
#include <kapplication.h>
#include <kaboutdata.h>
#include <kmessagebox.h>
#include <kcmdlineargs.h>
/*
This prints Hello World on your printer
*/
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
KAboutData aboutData(
// The program name used internally.
"tutorial-printing",
// The message catalog name
// If null, program name is used instead.
0,
// A displayable program name string.
ki18n("Printing Tutorial"),
// The program version string.
"1.0",
// Short description of what the app does.
ki18n("Displays a KMessageBox popup"),
// The license this code is released under
KAboutData::License_GPL,
// Copyright Statement
ki18n("(c) 2006-2011"),
// Optional text shown in the About box.
// Can contain any information desired.
ki18n("Some text..."),
// The program homepage string.
"http://example.com/",
// The bug report email address
"[email protected]");
KCmdLineArgs::init( argc, argv, &aboutData );
KApplication app;
QPrinter printer;
printer.setFullPage(true);
QPainter painter;
painter.begin(&printer);
painter.drawText(100,100,"Hello World");
painter.end();
// this makes the print job start
}
CMakeLists.txt
find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
include_directories( ${KDE4_INCLUDES} )
kde4_add_executable(printhelloworld main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(printhelloworld ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS} ${QT_QTGUI_LIBRARY})
Make and Run
To build and run it, make sure you have your build environment set up correctly as described here, then do:
cmake . make ./printhelloworld