Help printing listview...my formatting needs work!

hello, i'm trying to print out the contents of a listview in an orderly fashion... i've got the contents all to print out, but getting them in nice columns like they appear on the listview control is proving to be a bigger challenge than i thought!

here is my code:

Code:

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For i = 1 To lstStuff.ListItems.Count
      Printer.Print lstStuff.ListItems(i); Tab(5); _
      lstStuff.ListItems(i).SubItems(1); Tab(6); _
      lstStuff.ListItems(i).SubItems(2); Tab(16); _
      lstStuff.ListItems(i).SubItems(3); Tab(19); _
      lstStuff.ListItems(i).SubItems(4); Tab(20); _
      lstStuff.ListItems(i).SubItems(5); Tab(21); _
      vbNewLine;
      Next i
Printer.EndDoc

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now that is printing out all the stuff in the columns of the first record in the list....
it seems it will only print in about a 2 inch margin on the left side of the page ?

here's how the output looks:

Quote:

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Name 3
Description $7.00
2
4 pm

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when what it should look like is:

Quote:

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Name 3 Description $7.00 2 4pm

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there should be 6 columns in there, but it's all gettin jumbled up... dunno if my tabbing is messed up, or if there's something else im doing wrong :(... please help, im very novice when it comes to printing! :p

somebody?

Believe it or not, I'm in the same boat as you are. I can't print the listview out at all, because I'm new to this stuff. Can you help me?
Dan Regalia
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I've done what your trying to do, unfortunately, it was months ago, and I don't have any of that code handy.

A few questions.

What does the vbNewLine do? Does it add a blank line? I haven't used that. If you remove it, the code should work with each Print command printing the list on a new line.

Are ; correct? This should be something really simple to check, and you are probably correct. I was thinking it was comma separated, but I think you're right.

That out of the way, perhaps your problem is as simple as the possibility that you are printing to an area that is 2" wide.

I don't specifically remember setting the print area on many of my programs, but you might check to see if the print area is set to something really small.

Hi!
I was just trying to do the same, here is my code:

VB Code:

With lView
        For X = 1 To .ListItems.Count
            Printer.Print .ListItems(X).Text & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(1) & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(2) & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(3) & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(4) & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(5) & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(6) & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(7) & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(8) & "   " & .ListItems(X).ListSubItems(9)
        Next X
    End With
    Printer.EndDoc

I got all the row's at one line, but the coloumns does not look so pretty.

Hmm, why do i feel like my post is going to ruin the page width? :D

I was thinking, like, taking a screenshot of just the listview, but that would be cheating, right? :D And I guess the print would be kind of blur'ish, if you know what I mean.

I downloaded some code samples from planetsourcecode and found this quite interesting! Too bad it was to complicated for me :mad:. I didn't manage to extract just the code I need, but maybe one of you can?

what listview are you using, I know there are at least two in the components list and they act very differently.
microsoft windows common controls 6.0 (sp.4) is the one I use and my code for printing is identical to yours.
I cant remember what one the other one was under but it is very limited in uses. Hope this helps.

You're sure it's not the ListBox you're talking about?

i found this a while ago which worked well. :)

http://www.vb2themax.com/HtmlDoc.asp...Articles&ID=50

Cool :D