Development/Tutorials/Printing Hello World

The mission

Print Hello World on your printer.

The code

#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( "test", "test", "1.0", "test",
                          KAboutData::License_GPL, "(c) 2006" );
    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
}

How to compile

CMakeLists.txt

find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
include_directories( ${KDE4_INCLUDES} )
kde4_add_executable(printhelloworld printtest.cpp)
target_link_libraries(printhelloworld ${${KDE4_KDECORE_LIBS} ${QT_QTGUI_LIBRARY})

Make and Run

Then do:

cmake .
make
./printhelloworld