How to print a content of a window

Question

I'm totatlly new to handling printer in java. can any one give me a hand to do this.
what i want to do is i have a generated html report inside a JTextPane. i want to print this to take a rough copy of it. the text pane is inside a JInternalFrame and there is a button on it for this.
can any one give me sample code for this. (to print a content of a TextPane)
please use good comments in the code so i can get a good idea about this.
Thankx in advance...

Answer 1

Sorry for some error at code before. here is the revision:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class ComponentPrintable implements Printable { // sorry forgot class keyword
     private Component componentToPrint; // in your case it's JTextPane
     public ComponentPrintable(Component componentToPrint) {
          this.componentToPrint = componentToPrint;
     public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pi) throws PrinterException {
          if (pi > 0)
               return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
          componentToPrint.print(g);
          // 'retrun' should be return...
          return PAGE_EXISTS;
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
          PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
          JLabel componentToPrintLabel = new JLabel(
                    "Here is sample of component to be printed");
          ComponentPrintable cp = new ComponentPrintable(componentToPrintLabel);
          printerJob.setPrintable(cp);
          // you can set page format by calling printerJob.pageDialog(...)
          printerJob.print();
}you can compile and run it.
   $javac ComponentPrintable.java
   don't forget to turn on printer and prepare paper...
   $java ComponentPrintable
   see the result