Printing Plain Text

[egobbitz]

I am fairly new to java, but I am trying to write a text editor program (mostly for my own experience). I have most of the functionality of a basic editor, but would like to do some printing from it. I am using swing, with my main components being an extension of JFrame, and a JTextArea contained therein.
Can anyone give me some pointers on how to go about coding the print menu option? I have skimmed some of the tutorials on printing, but it all seems to be geared to shapes, etc. I just want to take what is in the text area and print it out to the printer.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Nick

 

[JavaDude32]

Hmm, you could try a very basic operation and see if this will work if you wish to sidestep the printing API. However, I haven't tested this so no idea if it'll work.

FileOutputStream x = new FileOutputStream("lpt"
x.write(/*Whatever info here*/);

 

[jimby]

Hope this thread gets some answers. Its all I want to do as well, just print some text from a file.

Any help would be grateful.