[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT Table printing

[Matthew Hall <matthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sandeep Reddy wrote:
> Is there any way to print a grid being displayed on the screen as one sees
> it on the screen. In othe words we intend to develop a What You See Is 
> What You Get system for grid printing. Some of the cells have data which 
> is not present in the corresponding  TableItem object. What I want to 
> know is, if there is a SWT component that is rendering the grid on the 
> screen then is it possible to get a reference to this object(SWT 
> component that is rendering the grid on the screen)and redirect this 
> component to printer ? I know how to redirect it to a printer but I do 
> not know what this component is and how to get a reference to this 
> component. Table may not be the component because TableItem has'nt got 
> data present in few cells of grid. We populate this data from some other 
> source.

Snippet: "Print a control to a printer"
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet292.java?view=co

Matthew