On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:56:53 +0000, Joanna Carter <cocoa...@carterconsulting.org.uk> said:
>Can I just jump in on this thread and ask where I can find info about printing a document like an invoice, where there is a header and then a list of invoice lines that is possibly longer than one page? Printing in Cocoa is easy - it's just drawing, with the added complication of pagination (in particular, of knowing where you want to place page boundaries so as to prevent a page element, such as one of your invoice lines, from being split between two pages). There's good info in the docs: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Printi ng/Printing.html For something as simple as you're describing, I would lay the whole thing out in my view's init, storing info about where the divisions are between each pair of invoice lines, and calling setFrameSize at the end so as to make the view the right size to hold all the output. Then I would implement adjustPageHeightNew and drawRect so as to use that info. That's it, really. Based on your frame size and your responses in adjustPageHeightNew, Cocoa will paginate for you, and when drawRect is called, you draw the rect you're asked for. m. -- matt neuburg, phd = m...@tidbits.com, <http://www.tidbits.com/matt/> A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool! AppleScript: the Definitive Guide - Second Edition! http://www.tidbits.com/matt/default.html#applescriptthings _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
