printing an ArrayList contents to printer

[evan theon]

i have just learned how to print a text ( not a text file ) in Java, and i also have just learned how to make a program with GUI using AWT and SWING ( i understand only a little bit of those two techniques, just adequate for me to make my program works ).
now what i'm trying to do is to make a GUI program that prints an ArrayList's contents when i push a 'PRINT' button.
the bottomline of my case is that i need to know how to make a print method with an ArrayList parameter which contents is going to be print.
let me simplify more :
say i have this program i used to print
import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.font.*;

import java.awt.geom.*;

import java.awt.print.*;





public class PrintInvoice {



private final static int POINTS_PER_CM = 29;



public PrintInvoice () {



PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob ();



Book book = new Book ();



PageFormat documentPageFormat = new PageFormat ();

documentPageFormat = printJob.pageDialog(documentPageFormat);

for(int j=0; j<10; j++)

book.append (new IntroPage (), documentPageFormat);





printJob.setPageable (book);



if (printJob.printDialog()) {

try {

printJob.print();

} catch (Exception PrintException) {

PrintException.printStackTrace();

}

}



}



static public void main(String args[])

{

PrintInvoice ex = new PrintInvoice();

}



private class IntroPage implements Printable {





public int print (Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int page) {



Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;



g2d.translate (pageFormat.getImageableX (), pageFormat.getImageableY ());



g2d.setPaint (Color.black);



Font titleFont = new Font ("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD, 14);

g2d.setFont (titleFont);

g2d.drawString ("text1", (int)(17.5*POINTS_PER_CM), (int)(2*POINTS_PER_CM));



titleFont = new Font ("Times New Roman", Font.PLAIN, 11);

g2d.setFont (titleFont);



g2d.drawString ("text2", (int)(2.5*POINTS_PER_CM), (int)(2.6*POINTS_PER_CM));

g2d.drawString ("text3", (int)(2.5*POINTS_PER_CM), (int)(3.1*POINTS_PER_CM));



titleFont = new Font ("Times New Roman", Font.PLAIN, 10);

g2d.setFont (titleFont);

for (int i = (6*POINTS_PER_CM); i < (int)(11.5*POINTS_PER_CM); i += 14) {

g2d.drawString ("texta", (int)(1*POINTS_PER_CM), i);

g2d.drawString ("textb", (int)(1.9*POINTS_PER_CM), i);

g2d.drawString ("textc", (int)(2.9*POINTS_PER_CM), i);

}

titleFont = new Font ("Times New Roman", Font.PLAIN, 11);

g2d.setFont (titleFont);

g2d.drawString ("text4", (int)(18.5*POINTS_PER_CM), (int)(12.2*POINTS_PER_CM));

g2d.drawString ("text5", (int)(18.5*POINTS_PER_CM), (int)(12.7*POINTS_PER_CM));

g2d.drawString ("text6", (int)(18.5*POINTS_PER_CM), (int)(13.2*POINTS_PER_CM));



return (PAGE_EXISTS);

}

}



}

you will see that i'm printing "text1","text2",etc in a certain position, now i want to replace those texts with caontents from an ArrayList. can somebody give me some hints,codes,links,examples,explanations,or anything that might help?
any help would be great thank you very much

[Hrishikesh Ghatnekar]

g2d.drawString ("text4", (int)(18.5*POINTS_PER_CM), (int)(12.2*POINTS_PER_CM));

Instead of text4 your can use arrayobject.toString();
Which will give you [ array contains, array contains,....] result

Else extend a class from arraylist , and override toString method to get the desired output.

Thanks

[evan theon]

oops...i forgot to mentioned that my problem is how to pass the ArrayList object to my print method i used ( which i have wrote on my last posting ) once i can get the Arraylist read inside my print method, the next step step would be more simple.
i've tried to do this in my sub class' constructor :

private class IntroPage(ArrayList) implements Printable

as you can see in my coding (on the last posting) i use this IntroPage class to do the printing job and design the result. but when i change its declaration (adding a parameter to it) it doesn't work!
the error message was that i need to add a "("
which i assumed i already did. is there any rules on printing in Java that i missed??

thanks for your help i really appreciate it