Printer Dialog Settings

What it is:

The Printer Dialog Settings enable the user to make settings for the Printer Dialog in the VisualWorks settings and vise versa.

supported settings:

• number of copies
• printing in sorted order
• page orientation
• color & monochrome printing
• papersize
• printer preselection

Class-extensions made

NTPrinterInterface

Overwritten methods:

openPrintDialog	calls #initPrintDlg: and opens the Print Dialog
initPrintDlg: aPrintDlg	initializes the PrintDlg Structure
tagPDA	defines the PrintDlg structure

New methods

getDevModeWithPrefs	initializes a DEVMODE structure with the settings made before
getDevNamesWithPrefs	initializes the DEVNAMES structure with the selected printer
getPrinterList	returns a list of available printers at the current PC
getPrinterNamesFromDevNames: aGlobal	saves the printer selected in the Print Dialog
storeSettingsFromDevMode: aDevMode	saves the settings made in the Print Dialog

Class-Methods for settings (aspects)

• color
• customSize
• numCopies
• orientation
• pageHight
• pageWidth
• paperSize
• selectedPrinter
• sorted

Printer Dialog Settings - VisualWorksSettings

new Settings Pages with Settings

• wpOptionsPage
• wpOptions05PrinterSelect   EnumerationSetting for printer selection
• wpOptions10numCopies   IntegerSetting for the Number of Copies
• wpOptions15sorted   BooleanSetting for collated or noncolleted print
• wpOptions20orientation   EnumerationSetting for landscape or portrait orientation
• wpOptions35color   EnumerationSetting for color or monochrome print
• wpOptions40paperSize   EnumerationSetting for paper size selection
• wpOptions41customSize   BooleanSetting for using custom paper size or not
• wpOptions45pageWidth   IntegerSetting for custom page width
• wpOptions50pageHight   IntegerSetting for custom page hight