printing [solved]

[Techno]

I'm never good in the printing/graphics area so I hope you can help me.
I can make text print, thats cool but what I am not good at is how to make it print the contents of the form (for each control in form...print text) to the page. Now, what I need for it is to align them and make them print in order, example going from top left to bottom right...line by line...

so it wouldnt matter where I place the controls on the form, I just want their textual value to be printed next to the previous textual value, and if the line is almost at the edge of the paper, to move to the next line and continue printing.

how can this be done?

[wossname]

foreach(Control cc in this.Controls)
myText+=cc.Text + "\r\n";

?

[Techno]

nope. lol
I want to print the contents (text) of the current control (cc in your example) to the document in a way that it will keep printing line by line, but it will move to the NEXT line once it reaches the end of that line

[jmcilhinney]

You need to measure the text you're about to print using the MeasureString method and compare that to the amount of available width left on the page. You know that width because you know where the right edge of the last string you drew is. If there is not enough room left on the current line you set the X coordinate back to zero and increase the Y coordinate so that the text gets drawn to the far left and below the previous. This appears to be the next line to the reader, but of course we know that there are no actual lines in .NET printing. Just the coordinates that you specify.

[Techno]

yes I found that out after a few minutes of my last post, thanks very much! good to know that I'm doing it correctly