Printing Bold

HI All,

I have this function that sets the contents of a Rich text box to bold and sets some of the text red, What I want to know is how can I print the contents of the Rich text box as it is seen in my program (Bold and red)? as at the moment it prints it all out as normal text.

VB Code:

Private Sub Show_Failed_Conversions()
    Dim currentnumber As Long
    Dim newnum As Integer
    Dim oldnum As Integer
    Dim FindBracket As Integer
    'Add time and data to the log file
    frmQConversion.txtLogFails.Text = "Time: " & Format$(Now, "hh:mm:ss") & vbCrLf & "Date: " & Format$(Now, "dd/mm/yy") & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
    
    'Loop though the collection and add items to the log file
    For currentnumber = 1 To holder.Count Step 1
        
        frmQConversion.txtLogFails.Text = frmQConversion.txtLogFails.Text & holder(currentnumber) & holdName(currentnumber) & " to " & HoldMe(currentnumber) & vbCrLf
        frmQConversion.txtLogFails.SelStart = 0
        frmQConversion.txtLogFails.SelLength = Len(frmQConversion.txtLogFails.Text)
        frmQConversion.txtLogFails.SelBold = True
    Next currentnumber
        newnum = 1
        oldnum = 2
        For FindBracket = 1 To Len(frmQConversion.txtLogFails.Text) Step 2
            oldnum = InStr(oldnum, frmQConversion.txtLogFails.Text, "[")
            newnum = InStr(newnum, frmQConversion.txtLogFails.Text, "]")
                If oldnum = 0 Then
                    Exit For
                Else
            frmQConversion.txtLogFails.SelStart = oldnum - 1
            frmQConversion.txtLogFails.SelLength = (newnum - oldnum + 1)
            frmQConversion.txtLogFails.SelBold = True
            frmQConversion.txtLogFails.SelColor = vbRed
            oldnum = newnum + 1
            newnum = newnum + 2
                End If
        Next FindBracket
        
    'Clear the collection
    Set holder = Nothing
    Set holdName = Nothing
    Set HoldMe = Nothing
End Sub

And here is where im printing it.

VB Code:

Private Sub cmbPrintLog_Click()
    Printer.Print txtLogFails.Text
    Printer.EndDoc
End Sub

Thanks

Loftty

use a richtextbox and in that amke text bold .... i dont know if that wuld work

Hi mate,
I think the problem is that you are saving to a .txt file which will not preserve the formatting from the RichTextBox. Try saving as .rtf or .doc and print those.

All the best,

Dave.

Hi Dave,

I'm not saving the file all I want to do is print the contents of the Rich text box.

Loftty

I saw this on the web. I have not tried it:

VB Code:

' #VBIDEUtils#*********************************************
' * Programmer Name  : Waty Thierry
' * Web Site         : [url]www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/6311/[/url]
' * E-Mail           : [email][email protected][/email]
' * Date             : 28/06/99
' * Time             : 13:01
' ************************************************************
' * Comments         : Print RichTextBox contents
' *
' *
' ***************************************************************
 
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias _
"SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal msg As Long, _
ByVal wp As Long, lp As Any) As Long
 
Private Declare Function GetDeviceCaps Lib "gdi32" _
  (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
 
Private Const WM_USER = &H400
Private Const EM_FORMATRANGE As Long = WM_USER + 57
 
Private Const PHYSICALOFFSETX As Long = 112
Private Const PHYSICALOFFSETY As Long = 113
 
Private Type RECT
   Left           As Long
   Top            As Long
   Right          As Long
   Bottom         As Long
End Type
 
Private Type CharRange
   cpMin          As Long
   cpMax          As Long
End Type
 
Private Type FormatRange
   hdc            As Long
   hdcTarget      As Long
   rc             As RECT
   rcPage         As RECT
   chrg           As CharRange
End Type

VB Code:

Public Function PrintRTF(rtf As RichTextBox, nnLeftMarginWidth _
 As Long, nnTopMarginHeight As Long, nnRightMarginWidth As _
 Long, nnBottomMarginHeight As Long) As Boolean
 
' #VBIDEUtils#************************************************
' * Programmer Name  : Waty Thierry
' * Web Site         : [url]www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/6311/[/url]
' * E-Mail           : [email][email protected][/email]
' * Date             : 30/10/98
' * Time             : 14:43
' * Module Name      : Main_Module
' * Module Filename  : Main.bas
' * Procedure Name   : PrintRTF
' * Parameters       :
' *                    rtf As RichTextBox
' *                    nnLeftMarginWidth As Long
' *                    nnTopMarginHeight As Long
' *                    nnRightMarginWidth As Long
' *                    nnBottomMarginHeight As Long
' ***************************************************************
' * Comments         :
' *
' *
' *************************************************************
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim nLeftOffset      As Long
Dim nTopOffset       As Long
Dim nLeftMargin      As Long
Dim nTopMargin       As Long
Dim nRightMargin     As Long
Dim nBottomMargin    As Long
Dim fr               As FormatRange
Dim rcDrawTo         As RECT
Dim rcPage           As RECT
Dim nTextLength      As Long
Dim nNextCharPos     As Long
Dim nRet             As Long
 
Printer.Print Space(1)
Printer.ScaleMode = vbTwips
nLeftOffset = Printer.ScaleX(GetDeviceCaps(Printer.hdc, _
   PHYSICALOFFSETX), vbPixels, vbTwips)
   
nTopOffset = Printer.ScaleY(GetDeviceCaps(Printer.hdc, _
   PHYSICALOFFSETY), vbPixels, vbTwips)
   
nLeftMargin = nnLeftMarginWidth - nLeftOffset
nTopMargin = nnTopMarginHeight - nTopOffset
nRightMargin = (Printer.Width - nnRightMarginWidth) _
   - nLeftOffset
   
nBottomMargin = (Printer.Height - nnBottomMarginHeight) _
   - nTopOffset
   
rcPage.Left = 0
rcPage.Top = 0
rcPage.Right = Printer.ScaleWidth
rcPage.Bottom = Printer.ScaleHeight
rcDrawTo.Left = nLeftMargin
rcDrawTo.Top = nTopMargin
rcDrawTo.Right = nRightMargin
rcDrawTo.Bottom = nBottomMargin
fr.hdc = Printer.hdc
fr.hdcTarget = Printer.hdc
fr.rc = rcDrawTo
fr.rcPage = rcPage
fr.chrg.cpMin = 0
fr.chrg.cpMax = -1
nTextLength = Len(rtf.Text)
 
Do
   fr.hdc = Printer.hdc
   fr.hdcTarget = Printer.hdc
   nNextCharPos = SendMessage(rtf.hWnd, EM_FORMATRANGE, _
     True, fr)
   If nNextCharPos >= nTextLength Then Exit Do
   fr.chrg.cpMin = nNextCharPos
   Printer.NewPage
   Printer.Print Space(1)
Loop
 
Printer.EndDoc
nRet = SendMessage(rtf.hWnd, EM_FORMATRANGE, _
  False, ByVal CLng(0))
 
PrintRTF = True
 
Exit Function
ErrorHandler:
    PrintRTF = False
End Function

Hi loftty,
Sorry mate (note to self: Learn to read the code properly before posting).:blush:
Have you tried using the .selprint method of the richtextbox?

VB Code:

RichTextBox1.SelPrint (Printer.hDC)

I've only had a quick go with it but it seems to preserve the formatting.

All the best,

Dave.

Hi Dave,

It does print it out bold but it only prints out the first line, then when I hit print again it prints the whole RTF. what would be wrong?

Thanks

Loftty

Weird!!!

Can you re-post the code?:confused:

Dave.

Hi Dave,

Here is the code where I print

VB Code:

Private Sub cmbPrintLog_Click()
 
    txtLogFails.SelPrint (Printer.hDC)
 
End Sub

The other code is in the first message.

Thanks

Loftty