Question

Printing Rich Text Box contents in VB.Net

Asked by: easy_life

I have a rich text box, I want to print the contents of the rich text box.
My Problem is:
If the user click print button then it will show the preview of the contents of the rich text box then user need to select the printer and then click ok it prints the contents.
How can I implement this in VB.Net?
I attched rich text box form below.

  • Doc1.doc
    • 51 KB

    This is a form contains rich text box.

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2009-03-11 at 13:45:07ID24221562
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Microsoft Visual Basic.Net

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Answers

 

by: amar31282Posted on 2009-03-11 at 14:01:06ID: 23862315

what you can do is make the image of the text box and then print it

The code in C# is given below hope you can convert it to vb

 

  private void printDocument1_PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e)
        {
            TextBox1.Refresh();
            TextBox1.Select();
            //BillView.ActiveForm.Activate();
            
            Bitmap bt2 = new Bitmap(pnlview.Width, pnlview.Height);
            Rectangle rt2 = new Rectangle(0, 0, TextBox1.Width, TextBox1.Height);
            bt2.SetResolution(1200, 1200);
            TextBox1.DrawToBitmap(bt2, rt2);
            e.Graphics.DrawImage(bt2, rt2);
 
        }
  private void PrintBill(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                //PrintPreviewControl pp = new PrintPreviewControl();
                //pp.Show();
                printDocument1.Print();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("No Printers Installed" + ex,"Error Printing", MessageBoxButtons.OK);
            }
        }

                                              
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by: easy_lifePosted on 2009-03-11 at 14:09:15ID: 23862401

Is two functions are separate or is any function calling another function? could please explain this?

Which code goes to print button click method?

 

by: amar31282Posted on 2009-03-11 at 20:45:52ID: 23864593

The first one is a printpage event of the printDocument Tool which is available there is toolbox printing tools.you can drag and drop it from toolbox to anywhere in the form
and the other function is the one which is calling the print event which should be applied to the print button click event.

 

by: easy_lifePosted on 2009-03-12 at 06:22:33ID: 23867904

Bitmap bt2 = new Bitmap(pnlview.Width, pnlview.Height);

What is pnlview in this statement?

 

by: amar31282Posted on 2009-03-12 at 06:32:23ID: 23868004

pnlview is the richbox you want to priint

 

by: easy_lifePosted on 2009-03-12 at 06:49:38ID: 23868186

I wrote the below code in my application.

I run the application, it directly printing without showing the print preview. It only prints the empty rich text box not the contents.

My puprpose is:

          First it shows the preview and then user need to select the printer then click ok it prints the contents of the rich text box.


Private Sub btnPrint_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPrint.Click
          Try
 
              Dim pp As PrintPreviewControl
             pp = New PrintPreviewControl()
              pp.Show()
                PrintDocument1.Print()
        Catch ex As Exception
                     MessageBox.Show(ex, "Error Printing", MessageBoxButtons.OK)
           End Try
End Sub


Private Sub PrintDocument1_PrintPage(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles PrintDocument1.PrintPage
             Me.rtbERG.Refresh()
            Me.rtbERG.Select()
          'BillView.ActiveForm.Activate()
           Dim bt2 As Bitmap
             bt2 = New Bitmap(Me.rtbERG.Width, Me.rtbERG.Height)
            'Bitmap(bt2 = New Bitmap(pnlview.Width, pnlview.Height))
           Dim rt2 As Rectangle
          rt2 = New Rectangle(0, 0, Me.rtbERG.Width, Me.rtbERG.Height)
         bt2.SetResolution(1200, 1200)
              Me.rtbERG.DrawToBitmap(bt2, rt2)
              e.Graphics.DrawImage(bt2, rt2)
End Sub

 

 

by: amar31282Posted on 2009-03-12 at 06:55:49ID: 23868266

hmm for empty box what you can do is you can put your rich box inside a panel and then print that panel instead of the rich box. It will work fine.

for the printing part i left it to you to show the print  dialog box.

At least you should also do effort
:)

 

by: amar31282Posted on 2009-03-12 at 07:21:30ID: 23868604

hmm I checked the after adding the rich text box to panel it is still not printing the Text. I think you will need to use something else. May be multiline Text box

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