PrinterDevice always nil!

rbuser

Dear RB-Team,

My goal is to have an additional button in a custom preview which prints
only the currently
displayed page.

So far I managed to create a custom preview, added that button (looks really
nice)
found your example about printing only defined pages (0124 or so,
ppTexxtToPageList)
with a PageList and PrinterDevice.PageList

...but I constantly fail to obtain the --> PrinterDevice <-- from
somewhere... (


I even found a posting from 2000 where Tom Ollar suggests this:

component...


I tried to get a Device in both, the BeforePrint event of the originated
ReportComponent
AND the custom Preview BeforePrint-event - alas, PrinterDevice stays nil in
each case.

Can you please provide a solution or tip how I can print only one page from
a preview?

thanks very much,
best regards

harald

nicocizik

Hi Harald,

For furture reference we prefer you use you name as the recipient when
making a post.

My suggestion in your case is to create the printer device yourself after
your custom print button has been pressed. This way you will have complete
control which pages are sent and when it is printed. Remember though that
you will need to disconnect the screen device before making the call to
PrintToDevices. Something like the following.

uses
ppPrnDev;

...

var
lPrinterDevice: TppPrinterDevice;
begin

lPrinterDevice := TppPrinterDevice.Create(nil);

try
lPrinterDevice.Publisher := ppReport1.Publisher;

//Assign the printer device page list.

//disconnnect screen device...
ppReport1.ScreenDevice.Publisher := nil;

//Print
ppReport1.PrintToDevices;

finaly
ppReport1.ScreenDevice.Publisher := ppReport.Publisher;
lPrinterDevice.Free;
end;
end;



--
Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com