Blting to the Printer

[gwdash]

I have the DC of some thing i want to print. How do i "blt" it to the printer with out doing this:


BitBlt frmMain.Picture1.hDC, 0, 0, Screen.Width, Screen.Height, DC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy
Printer.Print frmMain.Picture1.Picture


Do i have to do this, or can i blt directly to the printer?

[Sam Finch]

the printerhas an hDC property just like a picture box or a form, (Printer.hDC)

so try something like

BitBlt Printer.hDC, 0, 0, Screen.Width, Screen.Height, DC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy
Printer.EndDoc

[gwdash]

tried that, didn't work, nothing happend

[Sam Finch]

did it print out a blank page or just do nothing.

[gwdash]

Did nothing

[Sam Finch]

oh god, I remember, VB won't print out the page unless it thinks there's something on it, if you just use the API then it doesn't register that you've printed to it.

try this

Printer.Print " "
BitBlt frmMain.Picture1.hDC, 0, 0, Screen.Width, Screen.Height, DC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy
Printer.Print frmMain.Picture1.Picture

[gwdash]

I will try that a little later

[oetje]

Also try to add a Printer.Newpage. If vb doesn't get that command, it prints everything except the last page.