Development/Tutorials/Printing Print Dialog

The mission

To display the Print Dialog and print a document.

KDE uses the Qt Printing infrastructure, but adds extra standard features to the Print Dialog, as well as allowing applications to add their own extensions.

The code

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#include <QtGui/QPainter>
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#include <QtGui/QPrinter>
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#include <KdePrintDialog>
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#include <KPrintPreview>
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#include <KApplication>
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#include <KAboutData>
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#include <KCmdLineArgs>
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/*
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This prints Hello World on your printer
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*/
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int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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{
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    KAboutData aboutData( "test", "test", "1.0", "test",

                          KAboutData::License_GPL, "(c) 2006" );

    KCmdLineArgs::init( argc, argv, &aboutData );

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    KApplication app;
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    KAction* m_printPreview = KStandardAction::printPreview(app, SLOT(slotFilePrintPreview()), actionCollection());

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    KHelloWorldPrintDialogWidget optionsWidget;

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    QPrinter printer;
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    printer.setFullPage(true);
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    QPrintDialog *printDialog = KdePrint::createPrintDialog(&printer, QList<QWidget*>() << &yourOptionsWidget, this);

    printDialog.setWindowTitle(i18n("Print Hello World"));

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    if (printDialog.exec()) {
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        QPainter painter;
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        painter.begin(&printer);
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        painter.drawText(100,100,"Hello World");

        if (optionsWidget.printMoreText()) {

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        }
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        painter.end(); 
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        // this makes the print job start

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    }
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}
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class KHelloWorldPrintDialogWidget : public QWidget

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{
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    bool printMoreText();
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    void setPrintMoreText(bool state);
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    setWindowTitle(i18n("Your Options Tab Title"));

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}
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void KHelloWorld::slotFilePrintPreview() {

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    QPrinter printer;
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    KPrintPreview printPreview(&printer);

    yourPrintDrawingRoutine(printer); // draws to the QPrinter

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    printPreview.exec();
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}
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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} ${KDE4_KUTILS_LIBS} ${QT_QTGUI_LIBRARY})

Make and Run

Then do:

cmake .
make
./printhelloworld