SP2 for TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms and ActiveX 10.1 released
Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 10.1 and Service Pack 2 for TX Text Control ActiveX 10.1 have just been released. If you are experiencing any of the issues listed in the known issues list, please install the service pack.
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Using TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms with Component One's Print Preview
This week we would like to show you another .NET component that works well with the TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms. The ComponentOne Preview .NET component offers some advantages over the standard VS .NET print preview.
ComponentOne's control comes with the C1PrintPreview component and the C1PrintDocument component. In this sample, we are going to use the preview component only.
Using the components together is quite straight-forward: You need to create a custom PrintController, so that TX Text Control does not send its contents to the standard printer. The dummy PrintController does not do anything except return a Graphics object in the OnStartPage handler. As you cannot create a Graphics object without a Form or a Screen object, a reference to the parent form has to be set with the SetParent method.
Private Class MyPrintController
Inherits System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController
Private parent As Form1
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
End Sub
Public Sub SetParent(ByVal form As Form1)
parent = form
End Sub
Public Overloads Overrides Function OnStartPage(ByVal document_
As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument, ByVal e As System._
Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) As System.Drawing.Graphics
OnStartPage = parent.CreateGraphics()
End Function
Public Overloads Overrides Sub OnEndPage(ByVal document As_
System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument, ByVal e As System.Drawing._
Printing.PrintPageEventArgs)
End Sub
Public Overloads Overrides Sub OnEndPrint(ByVal document As_
System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument, ByVal e As System.Drawing._
Printing.PrintEventArgs)
End Sub
Public Overloads Overrides Sub OnStartPrint(ByVal document As_
System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument, ByVal e As System.Drawing._
Printing.PrintEventArgs)
End Sub
The CreateGraphics method of this reference can be used in the OnStartPage event handler. Have a look at the code to see how it works.
Note that at least TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 10.1 trial, a trial version of ComponentOne Preview .NET and Visual Studio VB .NET are required to run this sample.
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