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Question

Hi,
I'm having a problem with a piece of my code, it's not overly complex but it is non the less stumping me.
The problem is with printing.
If anyone is interested in earning some cash to sort this out for me I'll be happy to talk.
This is my personal code - not works - but I want to get it working.<BR>
If you're interested please post an email address and I'll contact you within minutes.
thanks in advance,
Ed.

Answer 1

Hi,
thanks for that. Don't know how I missed that.
I've added the code you suggested and found that the
PrintException.printStackTrace();
wont compile, it reports an error with println. Should I have imported something for this?
The other part of the error message did print out something rather interesting 'null'
This made me wonder if the problem is that the JVM hasn't instantiated the object that I'm trying to use as my print job object.
I have the following code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import javax.swing.JInternalFrame;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import javax.swing.JInternalFrame;
import javax.swing.*;
public class printControl extends JInternalFrame implements ActionListener {
public String strClass;
public templatePrint pt;
public finalPrint pf;
then a few lines later :
pt = new templatePrint();
pf = new finalPrint();
pt.addActionListener(this);
pf.addActionListener(this);
Container pane = getContentPane();
pane.setLayout(null);
pane.add(pt);
pane.add(pf);
Insets inset = pane.getInsets();
pt.setBounds(40 + inset.left, 25 + inset.top, 105,40);
pf.setBounds(190 + inset.left, 25 + inset.top, 105,40);
blah blah...
then my action performed code.
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (e.getSource() instanceof Button) {   
PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
if (printJob.printDialog()){
System.out.println(e.getSource().getClass().getName() + " button name");
if (e.getSource().getClass().getName() == "templatePrint"){
printJob.setPrintable((templatePrint) e.getSource());
try { printJob.print(); } catch (Exception PrintException)
System.out.println(PrintException.getMessage()); // + PrintException.printStackTrace();
else
printJob.setPrintable((finalPrint) e.getSource());
try { printJob.print(); } catch (Exception PrintException)
System.out.println(PrintException.getMessage()); // + PrintException.printStackTrace();
Incidentally, this is really my first advenure with printing and I have acquired all of my Java knowledge from a couple of books so far (hence some thicky mistakes).
thanks in advance, it is appreciated.