Development/Tutorials/Printing Print Dialog
< Development | Tutorials
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
1 #include <QtGui/QPainter>
2 #include <QtGui/QPrinter>
3
4 #include <KdePrintDialog>
5 #include <KPrintPreview>
6
7 #include <KApplication>
8 #include <KAboutData>
9 #include <KCmdLineArgs>
10
11 /*
12 This prints Hello World on your printer
13 */
14
15 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
16 {
17 KAboutData aboutData( "test", "test", "1.0", "test",
18 KAboutData::License_GPL, "(c) 2006" );
19 KCmdLineArgs::init( argc, argv, &aboutData );
20 KApplication app;
21
22 KAction* m_printPreview = KStandardAction::printPreview(app, SLOT(slotFilePrintPreview()), actionCollection());
23
24 KHelloWorldPrintDialogWidget optionsWidget;
25
26 QPrinter printer;
27 printer.setFullPage(true);
28 QPrintDialog *printDialog = KdePrint::createPrintDialog(&printer, QList<QWidget*>() << &yourOptionsWidget, this);
29 printDialog.setWindowTitle(i18n("Print Hello World"));
30 if (printDialog.exec()) {
31 QPainter painter;
32 painter.begin(&printer);
33 painter.drawText(100,100,"Hello World");
34 if (optionsWidget.printMoreText()) {
35 }
36 painter.end();
37 // this makes the print job start
38 }
39 }
40
41 class KHelloWorldPrintDialogWidget : public QWidget
42 {
43 bool printMoreText();
44 void setPrintMoreText(bool state);
45
46 setWindowTitle(i18n("Your Options Tab Title"));
47 }
48
49 void KHelloWorld::slotFilePrintPreview() {
50 QPrinter printer;
51 KPrintPreview printPreview(&printer);
52 yourPrintDrawingRoutine(printer); // draws to the QPrinter
53 printPreview.exec();
54 }
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
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