Printing from the _webview foundation class

[GlenGodbold]

We're using the _webview web browser to display htm pages in an application. Does anyone know if is possible (and if so how) to print the displayed page

Thanks for any suggestions

Glen Godbold
HWA

 

[chpicker]

According to the MSDN library:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wceshdoc/htm/ceconprintingpageswithwebbrowsercontrol.asp

Printing Pages with the WebBrowser Control
Although the WebBrowser control does not support a print method, you can print its contents by using one of the following methods:

Set the focus to the WebBrowser control and send a key combination of CTRL+P.
Call the IWebBrowser2::get_Document method, as shown in this example. (Note: example is in C++)

So, you should be able to at least get a workaround with code like this:

oMyWebBrowser.SetFocus()
KEYBOARD "{CTRL+P}"

Hope that helps...

Ian

 

[GlenGodbold]

Hi Ian

Thanks

That sort of works - if I set the focus to the browser (either by program or by clicking on the control) then pressing control+p on the keyboard prints the page fine, but I can't get the keyboard '{CTRL+P}' command to work either in a button with the following in the click event

oWeb.setfocus()
KEYBOARD '{CTRL+P}'

(I've tried adding plain and/or clear)

or by putting the keyboard command in the gotfocus event of the browser

Do I need to do something to get it out of the keyboard buffer??

Glen

 

[chpicker]

Try adding a DOEVENTS line:
[tt]
oWeb.setfocus()
DOEVENTS
KEYBOARD '{CTRL+P}'
[/tt]
This will wait to stuff the keystroke until AFTER the focus is set.

Other than that I'm afraid I have no idea. (

Ian

 

[GlenGodbold]

Hi Ian

Again thanks, but still doesn't work.

However a colleague has found the following Q265126 on the July 2001 MSDN disk

#DEFINE OLECMDID_PRINT 6
#OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER 1
#OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER 2
oWeb.ExecWB(OLECMDIDPRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPRMPTUSER)

Which works fine. Thanks for your help

Glen
HWA