Printer Ideea

[playplayply]

Hey,
I need to know if there is any way that I can print a medical analisys report
in visual basic:
I have a form made with a lot of text boxes and a print button. When I press the print button I want the values from the text boxes to be printed. This is simple but formatting them is giving me problems. Example:

Analyst Result Normal Values Analyst Result Normal values
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thymol Text1 2-4UML Prot C. Reactive TExt2 absent

The main problem is that if I enter in Text1 a bigger value or something it will scramble all the allign. Some ideeas?

[MartinLiss]

You can use Printer.CurrentX to print at "column" locations. e.g.

Printer.Print "Thymol ";
Printer.CurrentX = 900
Printer.Print "some value"

You may know this but the semi-colon causes the two things to be printed on the same line.

[playplayply]

Hello MartinLiss,
first of all thank you very much for your reply.
I have learned a little about datagrid and if I Insert data from a textbox to a datagrid how do I print it? It will arrange the text in a more ordonated formating?

If I use Printer.CurrentX what is the maximum value I can use? I mean what is the value that will mark the edge of the papaer? (I have wasted approx 200 A4 papers, I don't want to kill the forest anymore

Tahnk you

[MartinLiss]

"I have learned a little about datagrid and if I Insert data from a textbox to a datagrid how do I print it?" - You could do me.PrintForm but that may not be satisfactory since all the data would need to be visible and then you'd also have to first temporarily hide any controls that you didn't want in the picture.

If I use Printer.CurrentX what is the maximum value I can use? - Offhand I don't know, but please reinsert the printed pages and/or turn them over and/or upside down

[westconn1]

maximum value for currentX is printer.scalewidth
anything printed at that position would move on to the next line
i suggest using a pdf printer driver for testing purposes, you can just view on screen then overwrite for next test, test on real paper when the pdf is correct
you have to work with the printer.textwidth to align your text into columns

[playplayply]

Ok. Thank you very much for your help.

If I want to print in Visual Basic 2008 (I think is .net) a simple Hello world, what I must do? becase I have investigated this and is more complicated than printer.print Is something with documentprint. Can you provide me some kind of example on how to simply print on paper hello world? I have made it with the tables but I need to print Something else on the page.
Thank you again

[MartinLiss]

Thread moved.

[JuggaloBrotha]

If I use Printer.CurrentX what is the maximum value I can use? I mean what is the value that will mark the edge of the paper? (I have wasted approx 200 A4 papers, I don't want to kill the forest anymore

Tahnk you

Use the PrintPreview dialog for printing tests, never ever use paper for all of the testing

[playplayply]

OK. But how can I print Hello world on the paper?

[JuggaloBrotha]

Drop a PrintDocument on the form, double click it now in the code window you'll see a PrintPage event has been put in, use e.Graphics.DrawString() to draw the text on the page.