org.PingOO.DLAI.lib.util
Class PrinterManager

java.lang.Object
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public final class PrinterManager

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.lang.Runnable

Class that manages printing operations.
You can directly send text to printing or provide a Printable object that will handle all rendering operations.

Warning! Actually under Linux this seems to provoke a problem when printing plain text or when drawing text in graphics : on some system the printed pages are empty as well as the PostScript files. This may be realated to a missing font or something else.
Had also a problem sometimes when two (or more) different documents are sent to the printer, the second is never printed and the thread is still marked as active.

Warning! Hada problem under windows with Epson Stylus Color 800, if the generic windows driver is in use instead of the Epson's one then only the first page of the document is printed.

Since:

PingOO 2.0

Version:

2.0

Author:

Fabrice Bouyé (bouye@cur-archamps.fr)

See Also:

Runnable, Printable, java.awt.print.PrinterJob

Field Summary

private java.awt.print.Printable	printable The current Printable object that will be used when printing.
private PThread	printerThread The thread use to print.

Constructor Summary

private

PrinterManager(java.awt.print.Printable printable) Creates a new PrinterManager.

Method Summary

static void	print(java.awt.print.Printable printable) Launches a new printing session using the Printable object.
static void	print(java.lang.String text) Prints a text.
void	run() Do printing job.
private void	start() Start printing operations.
void	stop() Stops the current PrinterManager.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

, clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, registerNatives, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

printerThread

private PThread printerThread

The thread use to print.

printable

private java.awt.print.Printable printable

The current Printable object that will be used when printing.

Constructor Detail

PrinterManager

private PrinterManager(java.awt.print.Printable printable)

Creates a new PrinterManager.

Parameters:

printable - The printable object to use.

Method Detail

print

public static final void print(java.awt.print.Printable printable)

Launches a new printing session using the Printable object.
The Printable object will do the job of correctly rendering what's needed to be printed.

Parameters:

printable - The Printable object to use.

print

public static final void print(java.lang.String text)

Prints a text.

Parameters:

printable - The text to be printed.

start

private void start()

Start printing operations.

run

public void run()

Do printing job.

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

stop

public void stop()

Stops the current PrinterManager.