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[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : Hi, Thanks for reply. That could...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:20:17 +0000

Author: Aaron
Subject: 17354
Posted: 17 January 2011 at 3:20pm

Hi,

Thanks for reply. That could be an option too but I decided to add extra commandbars to PictureBox (with PrintPreview inside as well and using Dockingpanes). I added toolbar the toolbar and changed some properties for PrintPreview Toolbar. Just in case CJ implements the Execute/Update event, the only thing I have to do is copy/paste some code to get this fully functional.

If you don't use Dockingpanes this is an OK solution without having to position/size the solution I decided to use.

btw. This post shows what a forum is about, different members with different solutions. We should do this more often

This is what I did: (note: PrintPreview & CommandbarsExtra inside PictureBox & DockingPanes)

Private Function CreatePrintPreviewToolbar()
'Set same properties for both toolbars because I had to position new toolbar to top-left

'and right beneath new toolbar, the PrintPreview toolbar resides because it is positioned

'through ResizeClient event.

With Me.PrintPreview
.VisualTheme = xtpThemeNativeWinXP

        With .Toolbar
            .ShowGripper = False
            .ContextMenuPresent = False
            .Customizable = False
            .CustomizeDialogPresent = False
            .ShowExpandButton = False

            .EnableDocking xtpFlagStretched
        End With
    End With

    With Me.CommandBarsPrintPreviewExtra
        .DeleteAll
        .VisualTheme = xtpThemeNativeWinXP

        With .Add("Test", xtpBarTop)
            With .Controls

.Add xtpControlCheckBox, 1000, "Landscape"

'.Add ........
End With

            .ShowGripper = False
            .ContextMenuPresent = False
            .Customizable = False
            .CustomizeDialogPresent = False
            .ShowExpandButton = False

            .EnableDocking xtpFlagStretched
        End With
    End With

End Function

Private Sub CommandBarsPrintPreviewExtra_ResizeClient(ByVal Left As Long, ByVal Top As Long, ByVal Right As Long, ByVal Bottom As Long)
Me.PrintPreview.Move Left, Top, Right - Left, Bottom - Top
End Sub

Output:

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : Hi Aaron, As there is no direct...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:59:53 +0000

Author: Xander75
Subject: 17354
Posted: 17 January 2011 at 4:59am

Hi Aaron,

As there is no direct way of catching the event you could add Custom Controls i.e. Combo, CheckBox etc. I have done this with a ComboBox and it works fine, this way you can add many controls to the toolbar and leave the Close event to close the PrintPreview.

See below example for adding a ComboBox for printer orientation:

Private Sub Combo1_Change()
    PrintPreview.Orientation = IIf(Combo1.Text = "Landscape", xtpOrientationLandscape, xtpOrientationPortrait)
End Sub  
Private Sub Combo1_Click()
    Call Combo1_Change
End Sub  
Private Sub Form_Load()
    
    Dim Control As XtremeCommandBars.CommandBarControl
    
    With Combo1
        .AddItem "Landscape"
        .AddItem "Portrait"
        .Text = "Portrait"
    End With
    
    Set Control = CommandBars.CreateCommandBarControl("CXTPControlCustom")
    Control.Handle = Combo1.hWnd
            
    PrintPreview.Toolbar.Controls.AddControl Control
    
End Sub

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : Hi, Thanks for reply. Too bad,...

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:23:48 +0000

Author: Aaron
Subject: 17354
Posted: 15 January 2011 at 3:23am

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

Too bad, there's no event you can catch. For now I removed 'close' button and added seperator and checkbox (only to toggle 'preview' Landscape and Portrait) with same ID as 'close' button and I'm able to use Close event to add necessary code.

Well, at least you are able to access the toolbar and set new captions and tooltips. Would be nice though if we could add some more... CJ???

Thanks

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : Hi Aaron,In fact I think it's...

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:36:13 +0000

Author: Lodep59
Subject: 17354
Posted: 14 January 2011 at 8:36am

Hi Aaron,

In fact I think it's impossible if you use the print preview toolbar because you don't have access to the "execute" method of the toolbar. So you can add controls but there's no way to catch the click event.

In my case, I customize the labels of the printpreview commandbar controls and I've added a second command bar in the bottom of the printpreview wich is used as usual.

The printpreview control is very helpfull because you can place it on a form and add others controls. The printpreview function of the report control is easy to use but you can't customize the controls shown on the form.

Hope this help.

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : Lodep59 wrote: Hi, The...

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:28:29 +0000

Author: Aaron
Subject: 17354
Posted: 13 January 2011 at 11:28am

Lodep59 wrote:

Hi,

The last version ! 13.4.1. (http://www.codejock.com/corporate/whatsnew.asp#09202010).

As I said, it works fine with 13.4.0.

I use PrintPreview with ReportControl because :

1) The look of print preview is better (command bars VS buttons)

2) It's easy to change the captions of the buttons in printpreview (you just have to get the CommandBar object and use it)

3) I need to customize the available's actions when the printpreview is shown. For Example, on my print preview form I've added a checkbox in the commandbar to switch between "portrait" and "Landscape" mode.

Anyway, thank you for your replies, if CJ could do the same...

Hi,

I need to add some functionality too... Adding buttons isn't the problem but how to catch click event for the newly added button? I tried a lot but didn't succeed. Can I ask you how you did this?

Thanks

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : What is sad is that it does not...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:40:08 +0000

Author: Lodep59
Subject: 17354
Posted: 04 October 2010 at 2:40pm

What is sad is that it does not indicate that the property is used in place of the one of the report control when you use them together !

Maybe the printpreview could use the report control property on initialize ?

But this is not important, now it works.

Thanks for your help.

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : ok, Great.There is note about...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:47:48 +0000

Author: Oleg
Subject: 17354
Posted: 04 October 2010 at 1:47pm

ok, Great.

There is note about Orientation in release notes. maybe only not obvious what to do with it :)

http://www.codejock.com/products/releasenotes/release_notes.asp

PrintPreview.Orientation property added

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : oleg wrote: Hi,To allow...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:25:44 +0000

Author: Lodep59
Subject: 17354
Posted: 04 October 2010 at 12:25pm

oleg wrote:

Hi,

To allow everything to print with landscape mode, PrintPreview control now just have own Orientation mode.

Please use it instead:

Me.PrintPreview1.Orientation = xtpOrientationLandscape

Thank you Oleg.

Seems that it works.

Don't you think that such kind of change should be highlighted in change log !?

When an update need your customers to change their code it's the least to do !

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : Hi,To allow everything to print...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:30:50 +0000

Author: Oleg
Subject: 17354
Posted: 04 October 2010 at 8:30am

Hi,

To allow everything to print with landscape mode, PrintPreview control now just have own Orientation mode.

Please use it instead:

Me.PrintPreview1.Orientation = xtpOrientationLandscape

[SOLVED] Landscape not working (CreatePrintView) : For the moment I have not heard...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:17:16 +0000

Author: Lodep59
Subject: 17354
Posted: 04 October 2010 at 4:17am

For the moment I have not heard of the support on this ...
I will return to 13.4.0 and I'll live with the other bugs, a little less serious ...
To 14.0, consider making the tests a bit more advanced or, if you do not have time, thank you to provide your users a beta version. This kind of bug is very destabilizing.The quality of your components and our software depends on it.