Page Setup

GoDiagram (6 and previous)
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I want to provide a Print Setup and page setup menu items in my app but do not know how to set the printing setting on the GoView control.
Ideally I would like to do osomething like:
Dim pd As New PrintDocument Dim dlg As New PageSetupDialog dlg.Document = pd If dlg.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then GoView.PrintDocument = pd End If
There is the GoView.PrintShowDialog that sounds likt it does what I want but isot accessible in my main form
Is there an example in the sample apps, I can;t find one in Demo1 ??
Many thanks
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There’s a sample or 2 in the FAQ that’s along the lines you’re asking about. There’s also a section on printing in the User’s Guide.

PrintShowDialog is protected, not private. You should be able to override within your view.
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Thanks for the suggestions!

These seem to show how to get the printdocument settings but don;t help with defining the pagesettings used by the goview itself when I use the printpreview or print methods.
Is there a way of setting the printsettings that are used by the goview printdocument object when it is printing?
I have tried the following, but it seems to have no imapct on the printpreview display!
Public Overrides Sub PrintDocumentPage(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) e.PageSettings.Landscape = True MyBase.PrintDocumentPage(sender, e) End Sub
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There's some code in the documentation for GoView.PrintShowDialog. The same can be done in an override of GoView.PrintPreviewShowDialog.
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Jake

Many thanks for this, My brain was stuck on a single minded approach to the problem! I just needed to get my head around a differant approach. I think I have got what I want with the following Inherited GoView object which I can then call the PageSetup to define the PageSettings!
Imports System Imports System.Collections Imports System.ComponentModel Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Drawing.Printing Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports Northwoods.Go Namespace NMTGo Public Class NMTGoView Inherits GoView Private pgSet As New PageSettings Protected Overrides Function PrintShowDialog(ByVal pd As PrintDocument) As DialogResult pd.DefaultPageSettings = pgSet Return MyBase.PrintShowDialog(pd) End Function Protected Overrides Sub PrintPreviewShowDialog(ByVal pd As PrintDocument) pd.DefaultPageSettings = pgSet MyBase.PrintPreviewShowDialog(pd) End Sub Public Function PageSetup() As DialogResult Dim dlg As New PageSetupDialog dlg.PageSettings = pgSet Return dlg.ShowDialog End Function End Class End Namespace
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I thought for those newbies like me out there this might be helpful. If you do as Tom shows above this code will show you how to get a landscape print automatically without first running a page setup, on the form that you put your inherited GoView on (I called my inherited GoView govMain in this case):

Private Sub frmMain_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Dim MyPageSettings As New PageSettings MyPageSettings.Landscape = True govMain.PGSet = MyPageSettings
End Sub
Here is the code for my inherited GoView with pagesetup dialog:
Imports System Imports System.Collections Imports System.ComponentModel Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Drawing.Printing Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports Northwoods.Go Public Class MyGoView Inherits GoView Private _pgSet As New PageSettings Protected Overrides Function PrintShowDialog(ByVal pd As PrintDocument) As DialogResult pd.DefaultPageSettings = _pgSet Return MyBase.PrintShowDialog(pd) End Function Protected Overrides Sub PrintPreviewShowDialog(ByVal pd As PrintDocument) pd.DefaultPageSettings = _pgSet MyBase.PrintPreviewShowDialog(pd) End Sub Public Function PageSetup() As DialogResult Dim dlg As New PageSetupDialog dlg.PageSettings = _pgSet Return dlg.ShowDialog End Function Public Property PGSet() As PageSettings Get PGSet = _pgSet End Get Set(ByVal value As PageSettings) _pgSet = value End Set End Property End Class
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thanks.