Can you email the contents of a Printable?

[mes123]

I've got a printable Jpanel (and a printable class called printMe), is it possible to (easily) convert these and email them?

 

[Diancecht]

I think you'll need to explain yourself a little more. At first sight, I don't understand the concep of "email a panel"

Cheers,
Dian

 

[mes123]

I've got a JPanel that implements the Prinatble interface, it's used to display an invoice. I wanted to know if it's possible to send an email that will contain the 'image' of the jPanel.

As far as I understand the JavaMail API you cannot simply set a Printable as the content of an email and I don't know how to convert the jPanel contents to a form which can be emailed.

 

[stefanwagner]

a) Convert the displayed image to an imageformat like png.
b) Save it to a file.
c) Attach it to your email.

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[mes123]

there is no way to do it directly without having to save to a file first?

 

[sedj]

The easiest way to attach data to an email is like so :

			mbp = new MimeBodyPart();
			mbp.setFileName(file.getName());
			mbp.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(new FileDataSource(file)));
			mp.addBodyPart(mbp);

Now, while you could of course create your own implementation of javax.activation.DataSource - which allowed you to attach images, byte data, or whatever you wanted, I'm guessing you are a newbie, and I really would go down the path of least resistance (ie attaching a file).

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