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internal:
// Declare the PrintPreviewControl object and the
// PrintDocument object.
PrintPreviewControl^ PrintPreviewControl1;
private:
System::Drawing::Printing::PrintDocument^ docToPrint;
void InitializePrintPreviewControl()
// Construct the PrintPreviewControl.
this->PrintPreviewControl1 = gcnew PrintPreviewControl;
// Set location, name, and dock style for PrintPreviewControl1.
this->PrintPreviewControl1->Location = Point(88,80);
this->PrintPreviewControl1->Name = "PrintPreviewControl1";
this->PrintPreviewControl1->Dock = DockStyle::Fill;
// Set the Document property to the PrintDocument
// for which the PrintPage event has been handled.
this->PrintPreviewControl1->Document = docToPrint;
// Set the zoom to 25 percent.
this->PrintPreviewControl1->Zoom = 0.25;
// Set the document name. This will show be displayed when
// the document is loading into the control.
this->PrintPreviewControl1->Document->DocumentName = "c:\\someFile";
// Set the UseAntiAlias property to true so fonts are smoothed
// by the operating system.
this->PrintPreviewControl1->UseAntiAlias = true;
// Add the control to the form.
this->Controls->Add( this->PrintPreviewControl1 );
// Associate the event-handling method with the
// document's PrintPage event.
this->docToPrint->PrintPage += gcnew System::Drawing::Printing::PrintPageEventHandler( this, &Form1::docToPrint_PrintPage );
// The PrintPreviewControl will display the document
// by handling the documents PrintPage event
void docToPrint_PrintPage( Object^ /*sender*/, System::Drawing::Printing::PrintPageEventArgs^ e )
// Insert code to render the page here.
// This code will be called when the control is drawn.
// The following code will render a simple
// message on the document in the control.
String^ text = "In docToPrint_PrintPage method.";
System::Drawing::Font^ printFont = gcnew System::Drawing::Font( "Arial",35,FontStyle::Regular );
e->Graphics->DrawString( text, printFont, Brushes::Black, 10, 10 );
// Declare the PrintPreviewControl object and the
// PrintDocument object.
internal PrintPreviewControl PrintPreviewControl1;
private System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument docToPrint =
new System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument();
private void InitializePrintPreviewControl()
// Construct the PrintPreviewControl.
this.PrintPreviewControl1 = new PrintPreviewControl();
// Set location, name, and dock style for PrintPreviewControl1.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Location = new Point(88, 80);
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Name = "PrintPreviewControl1";
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
// Set the Document property to the PrintDocument
// for which the PrintPage event has been handled.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Document = docToPrint;
// Set the zoom to 25 percent.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Zoom = 0.25;
// Set the document name. This will show be displayed when
// the document is loading into the control.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Document.DocumentName = "c:\\someFile";
// Set the UseAntiAlias property to true so fonts are smoothed
// by the operating system.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.UseAntiAlias = true;
// Add the control to the form.
this.Controls.Add(this.PrintPreviewControl1);
// Associate the event-handling method with the
// document's PrintPage event.
this.docToPrint.PrintPage +=
new System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventHandler(
docToPrint_PrintPage);
// The PrintPreviewControl will display the document
// by handling the documents PrintPage event
private void docToPrint_PrintPage(
object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e)
// Insert code to render the page here.
// This code will be called when the control is drawn.
// The following code will render a simple
// message on the document in the control.
string text = "In docToPrint_PrintPage method.";
System.Drawing.Font printFont =
new Font("Arial", 35, FontStyle.Regular);
e.Graphics.DrawString(text, printFont,
Brushes.Black, 10, 10);
'Declare the PrintPreviewControl object and the PrintDocument object.
Friend WithEvents PrintPreviewControl1 As PrintPreviewControl
Private WithEvents docToPrint As New Printing.PrintDocument
Private Sub InitializePrintPreviewControl()
' Construct the PrintPreviewControl.
Me.PrintPreviewControl1 = New PrintPreviewControl
' Set location, name, and dock style for PrintPreviewControl1.
Me.PrintPreviewControl1.Location = New Point(88, 80)
Me.PrintPreviewControl1.Name = "PrintPreviewControl1"
Me.PrintPreviewControl1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
' Set the Document property to the PrintDocument
' for which the PrintPage event has been handled.
Me.PrintPreviewControl1.Document = docToPrint
' Set the zoom to 25 percent.
Me.PrintPreviewControl1.Zoom = 0.25
' Set the document name. This will show be displayed when
' the document is loading into the control.
Me.PrintPreviewControl1.Document.DocumentName = "c:\someFile"
' Set the UseAntiAlias property to true so fonts are smoothed
' by the operating system.
Me.PrintPreviewControl1.UseAntiAlias = True
' Add the control to the form.
Me.Controls.Add(Me.PrintPreviewControl1)
End Sub
' The PrintPreviewControl will display the document
' by handling the documents PrintPage event
Private Sub docToPrint_PrintPage(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) _
Handles docToPrint.PrintPage
' Insert code to render the page here.
' This code will be called when the control is drawn.
' The following code will render a simple
' message on the document in the control.
Dim text As String = "In docToPrint_PrintPage method."
Dim printFont As New Font _
("Arial", 35, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular)
e.Graphics.DrawString(text, printFont, _
System.Drawing.Brushes.Black, 10, 10)
End Sub
When you create an instance of the
PrintPreviewControl
class, some of the read/write properties are set to initial values. For a list of these values, see the
PrintPreviewControl
constructor.
For more information about printing with Windows Forms, see the
System.Drawing.Printing
namespace overview. If you wish to print from a Windows Presentation Foundation application, see the
System.Printing
namespace.
Gets or sets the default action description of the control for use by accessibility client applications.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control can accept data that the user drags onto it.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets the edges of the container to which a control is bound and determines how a control is resized with its parent.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets the distance, in pixels, between the bottom edge of the control and the top edge of its container's client area.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets the size and location of the control including its nonclient elements, in pixels, relative to the parent control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets a value indicating whether the
ImeMode
property can be set to an active value, to enable IME support.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control causes validation to be performed on any controls that require validation when it receives focus.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets a value indicating whether the control, or one of its child controls, currently has the input focus.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets the data context for the purpose of data binding.
This is an ambient property.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets the length and height, in pixels, that is specified as the default maximum size of a control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets the length and height, in pixels, that is specified as the default minimum size of a control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets the DPI value for the display device where the control is currently being displayed.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets which control borders are docked to its parent control and determines how a control is resized with its parent.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether this control should redraw its surface using a secondary buffer to reduce or prevent flicker.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets a value indicating whether the caller must call an invoke method when making method calls to the control because the caller is on a different thread than the one the control was created on.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control is visible to accessibility applications.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Indicates if one of the Ancestors of this control is sited and that site in DesignMode. This property is read-only.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets the distance, in pixels, between the left edge of the control and the left edge of its container's client area.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the control relative to the upper-left corner of its container.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets the distance, in pixels, between the right edge of the control and the left edge of its container's client area.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether control's elements are aligned to support locales using right-to-left fonts.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets a value indicating whether the user interface is in the appropriate state to show or hide keyboard accelerators.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user can give the focus to this control using the TAB key.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets the distance, in pixels, between the top edge of the control and the top edge of its container's client area.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets the parent control that is not parented by another Windows Forms control. Typically, this is the outermost
Form
that the control is contained in.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether to use the wait cursor for the current control and all child controls.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the control and all its child controls are displayed.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Notifies the accessibility client applications of the specified
AccessibleEvents
for the specified child control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Notifies the accessibility client applications of the specified
AccessibleEvents
for the specified child control .
(Inherited from
Control
)
Executes the specified delegate asynchronously on the thread that the control's underlying handle was created on.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Executes the specified delegate asynchronously on the thread that the control's underlying handle was created on.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Executes the specified delegate asynchronously with the specified arguments, on the thread that the control's underlying handle was created on.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Forces the creation of the visible control, including the creation of the handle and any visible child controls.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object.
(Inherited from
MarshalByRefObject
)
Releases the unmanaged resources used by the
Control
and its child controls and optionally releases the managed resources.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Retrieves the return value of the asynchronous operation represented by the
IAsyncResult
passed.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Retrieves a value indicating how a control will behave when its
AutoSize
property is enabled.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Retrieves the child control that is located at the specified coordinates, specifying whether to ignore child controls of a certain type.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Obsolete.
Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance.
(Inherited from
MarshalByRefObject
)
Returns an object that represents a service provided by the
Component
or by its
Container
.
(Inherited from
Component
)
Obsolete.
Obtains a lifetime service object to control the lifetime policy for this instance.
(Inherited from
MarshalByRefObject
)
Invalidates a specific region of the control and causes a paint message to be sent to the control. Optionally, invalidates the child controls assigned to the control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Invalidates the specified region of the control (adds it to the control's update region, which is the area that will be repainted at the next paint operation), and causes a paint message to be sent to the control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Invalidates the specified region of the control (adds it to the control's update region, which is the area that will be repainted at the next paint operation), and causes a paint message to be sent to the control. Optionally, invalidates the child controls assigned to the control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Invalidates the specified region of the control (adds it to the control's update region, which is the area that will be repainted at the next paint operation), and causes a paint message to be sent to the control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Invalidates the specified region of the control (adds it to the control's update region, which is the area that will be repainted at the next paint operation), and causes a paint message to be sent to the control. Optionally, invalidates the child controls assigned to the control.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Executes the specified delegate on the thread that owns the control's underlying window handle.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Executes the specified delegate on the thread that owns the control's underlying window handle.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Executes the specified delegate, on the thread that owns the control's underlying window handle, with the specified list of arguments.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Executes the specified delegate on the thread that owns the control's underlying window handle.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Determines whether the specified key is a regular input key or a special key that requires preprocessing.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Transforms a size from logical to device units by scaling it for the current DPI and rounding down to the nearest integer value for width and height.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Raises the
BackColorChanged
event when the
BackColor
property value of the control's container changes.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Raises the
BackgroundImageChanged
event when the
BackgroundImage
property value of the control's container changes.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Raises the
BindingContextChanged
event when the
BindingContext
property value of the control's container changes.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Raises the
EnabledChanged
event when the
Enabled
property value of the control's container changes.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Raises the
FontChanged
event when the
Font
property value of the control's container changes.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Raises the
ForeColorChanged
event when the
ForeColor
property value of the control's container changes.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Raises the
RightToLeftChanged
event when the
RightToLeft
property value of the control's container changes.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Raises the
VisibleChanged
event when the
Visible
property value of the control's container changes.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Preprocesses keyboard or input messages within the message loop before they are dispatched.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Preprocesses keyboard or input messages within the message loop before they are dispatched.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Forces the control to invalidate its client area and immediately redraw itself and any child controls.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Causes a control bound to the
BindingSource
to reread all the items in the list and refresh their displayed values.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Resumes usual layout logic, optionally forcing an immediate layout of pending layout requests.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Converts the specified
ContentAlignment
to the appropriate
ContentAlignment
to support right-to-left text.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Converts the specified
HorizontalAlignment
to the appropriate
HorizontalAlignment
to support right-to-left text.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Converts the specified
LeftRightAlignment
to the appropriate
LeftRightAlignment
to support right-to-left text.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Converts the specified
ContentAlignment
to the appropriate
ContentAlignment
to support right-to-left text.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Converts the specified
HorizontalAlignment
to the appropriate
HorizontalAlignment
to support right-to-left text.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Converts the specified
LeftRightAlignment
to the appropriate
LeftRightAlignment
to support right-to-left text.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Scales a logical bitmap value to it's equivalent device unit value when a DPI change occurs.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Activates a child control. Optionally specifies the direction in the tab order to select the control from.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Returns a
String
containing the name of the
Component
, if any. This method should not be overridden.
(Inherited from
Component
)
Occurs when the DPI setting for a control is changed programmatically after the DPI of its parent control or form has changed.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Occurs when the DPI setting for a control is changed programmatically before a DPI change event for its parent control or form has occurred.
(Inherited from
Control
)
Occurs during a drag-and-drop operation and enables the drag source to determine whether the drag-and-drop operation should be canceled.
(Inherited from
Control
)
