Re: [platform-ui-dev] Print Preview / Page Setup dialogs

["Nick Edgar" <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Randy,

SWT provides PrinterDialog, which is the standard OS dialog for choosing a 
printer and setting its options, including orientation .  Some 
applications add application-specific pages to this dialog, but this is 
not currently supported in SWT.  This does not address 
application-specific page layout settings as usually shown in a Page 
Setup... dialog.  Nor does it address what typically goes into a Print 
Preview dialog.  I agree that there are common elements to both of these, 
and it would be nice if Eclipse provided such support (whether at the SWT 
level or the Workbench level).

However, the Eclipse team does not have any planned work in this area (see 
the R3.0 plan at 
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_0.html), 
nor do we have the resources to address this without impacting on other 
planned items. 

If you would like to contribute something in this area to Eclipse, we can 
work together to define its requirements.  Otherwise, please enter feature 
requests in Bugzilla.

Regards,
Nick






Randy Hudson/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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We have a requirement to provide a print preview dialog.  This dialog 
would show you a representation of a piece of paper with a thumbnail of 
the printed contents on it.  The thumbnail portion is application 
specific, but I was wondering if options such as print margin, page 
orientation, etc., could be provided by JFace or SWT? 

How is it possible to do things like change the print orientation 
(landscape/portrait), duplex printing, etc.  One way is just to have a 
button labeled "properties", which invokes the native Printer properties 
dialog.  But I think this dialog is missing from SWT. 

Many applications have two separate actions from the File menu: Print, and 
Page Setup. Setup would allow you to change orientation and print margins, 
and maybe other options such as printing source code using 2 columns ala 
enscript on Unix.  I'm thinking that the Page Setup dialog would be 
non-native, and that maybe the workbench could provide a framework for 
this. 

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