DUVARRIS, WALKER

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Thanks for the immediate response Yoel...
I'm know all about this the article, Printing in Java, at:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-print_p.html
I've been able to run examples from this article without any problems. Printing in java isn't the problem. I can print the examples from this article just java fine... the problem I'm having is trying to get data from my data to print out. How do I get the data or records that are in my database onto paper. How do I send database column values to a printer?
Have you figured this out yet? Please let me know... All any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again Yoel!
Du'Varris

I'm very new to java... How do you print information on paper (e.g. a record from a database) through java. Is there any method to print the info directly to the printer without writing it in to a file first.
I would like to be able to send reports to a printer based on the data that I have in my database. I haven't a clue how to do this. I was able to print the plain text document below without any problem. It's an example from the Java Print API. It was pretty easy.
Java Print API tutorial: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-print.html

But how do I go about adding the data that's in my database to this document. I tried inserting a query statement in the code below to see if that would work. I don't have a clue. If you have any ideas could you let me know..
Duncan
/**
* Class: Example5

*
* Example of using the TextLayout class to format a text paragraph.
* with full justification.

*
* @author Jean-Pierre Dube <jpdube@videotron.ca>
* @version 1.0
* @since 1.0
*/

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import com.borland.jbcl.layout.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import com.borland.dbswing.*;
import com.borland.dx.sql.dataset.*;
import com.borland.dx.dataset.*;

public class Example5 {
//--- Private instances declarations
private final static int POINTS_PER_INCH = 72;
private OrderPanel fields;
private JTextArea textOutput;
private Connection connection;
public ResultSet rs;
public Statement statement;

/**
* Constructor: Example5

*
*/
public Example5 () {
//--- Create a new PrinterJob object
PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob ();
//--- Create a new book to add pages to
Book book = new Book ();
//--- Add the cover page using the default page format for this print job
book.append (new IntroPage (), printJob.defaultPage ());
//--- Add the document page using a landscape page format
PageFormat documentPageFormat = new PageFormat ();
documentPageFormat.setOrientation (PageFormat.LANDSCAPE);
book.append (new Document (), documentPageFormat);
//--- Tell the printJob to use the book as the pageable object
printJob.setPageable (book);
//--- Show the print dialog box. If the user click the
//--- print button we then proceed to print else we cancel
//--- the process.
if (printJob.printDialog()) {
try {
printJob.print();
} catch (Exception PrintException) {
PrintException.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

/**
* Class: IntroPage

*
* This class defines the painter for the cover page by implementing the
* Printable interface.

*
* @author Jean-Pierre Dube <jpdube@videotron.ca>
* @version 1.0
* @since 1.0
* @see Printable
*/
private class IntroPage implements Printable {

/**
* Method: print

*
* @param g a value of type Graphics
* @param pageFormat a value of type PageFormat
* @param page a value of type int
* @return a value of type int
*/
public int print (Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int page) {
//--- Create the Graphics2D object
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
//--- Translate the origin to 0,0 for the top left corner
g2d.translate (pageFormat.getImageableX (), pageFormat.getImageableY ());
//--- Set the default drawing color to black
g2d.setPaint (Color.black);
//--- Draw a border arround the page
Rectangle2D.Double border = new Rectangle2D.Double (0,
0,
pageFormat.getImageableWidth (),
pageFormat.getImageableHeight ());
g2d.draw (border);
//--- Print the title
String titleText = "Printing in Java Part 2, Example 5, Using full justification";
Font titleFont = new Font ("helvetica", Font.BOLD, 18);
g2d.setFont (titleFont);
//--- Compute the horizontal center of the page
FontMetrics fontMetrics = g2d.getFontMetrics ();
double titleX = (pageFormat.getImageableWidth () / 2) - (fontMetrics.stringWidth (titleText) / 2);
double titleY = 3 * POINTS_PER_INCH;
g2d.drawString (titleText, (int) titleX, (int) titleY);
return (PAGE_EXISTS);
}
}
/**
* Class: Document

*
* This class is the painter for the document content.
* The print method will render a text paragraph fully
* justified.

*
*
* @author Jean-Pierre Dube <jpdube@videotron.ca>
* @version 1.0
* @since 1.0
* @see Printable
*/
private class Document implements Printable {

/**
* Method: print

*
* @param g a value of type Graphics
* @param pageFormat a value of type PageFormat
* @param page a value of type int
* @return a value of type int
*/
public int print (Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int page) {

//--- Create the Graphics2D object
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
//--- Translate the origin to 0,0 for the top left corner
g2d.translate (pageFormat.getImageableX (), pageFormat.getImageableY ());
//--- Set the drawing color to black
g2d.setPaint (Color.black);
//--- Draw a border arround the page using a 12 point border
g2d.setStroke (new BasicStroke (4));
Rectangle2D.Double border = new Rectangle2D.Double (0,
0,
pageFormat.getImageableWidth (),
pageFormat.getImageableHeight ());
g2d.draw (border);

//--- Create a string and assign the text
String text = new String ();
text += "Manipulating raw fonts would be too complicated to render paragraphs of ";
text += "text. Trying to write an algorithm to fully justify text using ";
text += "proportional fonts is not trivial. Adding support for international ";
text += "characters adds to the complexity. That's why we will use the ";
text += "<code>TextLayout</code> and the <code>LineBreakMeasurer<code> class to ";
text += "render text. The <code>TextLayout<code> class offers a lot of ";
text += "functionality to render high quality text. This class is capable of ";
text += "rendering bidirectional text such as Japanese text where the alignment ";
text += "is from right to left instead of the North American style which is left ";
text += "to right. The <code>TextLayout<code> class offers some additional ";
text += "functionalities that we will not use in the course of this ";
text += "series. Features such as text input, caret positionning and hit ";
text += "testing will not be of much use when printing documents, but it's good ";
text += "to know that this functionality exists. ";
text += "The <code>TextLayout</code> class will be used to layout ";
text += "paragraphs. The <code>TextLayout</code> class does not work alone. To ";
text += "layout text within a specified width it needs the help of the ";
text += "<code>LineBreakMeasurer</code> class. This class will wrap a string of ";
text += "text to fit a predefined width. Since it's a multi-lingual class, it ";
text += "knows exactly where to break a line of text according to the rules ";
text += "of the language. Then again the <code>LineBreakMeasurer</code> does ";
text += "not work alone. It needs information from the ";
text += "<code>FontRenderContext</code> class. This class' main function is to ";
text += "return accurate font metrics. To measure text effectively, this class ";
text += "needs to know the rendering hints for the targeted device and the font ";
text += "type being used. ";

//**********************************
try {
while (rs.next()); {
text += rs.getString( "contact" );
}
}
catch ( SQLException sqlex ) {
sqlex.printStackTrace();
textOutput.setText( sqlex.toString() );
}
//*************************

//--- Create a point object to set the top left corner of the TextLayout object
Point2D.Double pen = new Point2D.Double (0.25 * POINTS_PER_INCH, 0.25 * POINTS_PER_INCH);
//--- Set the width of the TextLayout box
double width = 8 * POINTS_PER_INCH;

//--- Create an attributed string from the text string. We are creating an
//--- attributed string because the LineBreakMeasurer needs an Iterator as
//--- parameter.
AttributedString paragraphText = new AttributedString (text);
//--- Set the font for this text
paragraphText.addAttribute (TextAttribute.FONT, new Font ("serif", Font.PLAIN, 12));
//--- Create a LineBreakMeasurer to wrap the text for the TextLayout object
//--- Note the second parameter, the FontRendereContext. I have set the second
//--- parameter antiAlised to true and the third parameter useFractionalMetrics
//--- to true to get the best possible output
LineBreakMeasurer lineBreaker = new LineBreakMeasurer (paragraphText.getIterator(),
new FontRenderContext (null, true, true));
//--- Create the TextLayouts object
TextLayout layout;
TextLayout justifyLayout;
//--- Create a Vector to temporaly store each line of text
Vector lines = new Vector ();
//--- Get the output of the LineBreakMeasurer and store it in a Vector
while ((layout = lineBreaker.nextLayout ((float) width)) != null) {
lines.add (layout);
}
//--- Scan each line of the paragraph and justify it except for the last line
for (int i = 0; i < lines.size (); i++) {
//--- Get the line from the vector
layout = (TextLayout) lines.get (i);
//--- Check for the last line. When found print it
//--- with justification off
if (i != lines.size () - 1)
justifyLayout = layout.getJustifiedLayout ((float) width);
else
justifyLayout = layout;
//--- Align the Y pen to the ascend of the font, remember that
//--- the ascend is origin (0, 0) of a font. Refer to figure 1
pen.y += justifyLayout.getAscent ();
//--- Draw the line of text
justifyLayout.draw (g2d, (float) pen.x, (float) pen.y);
//--- Move the pen to the next position adding the descent and
//--- the leading of the font
pen.y += justifyLayout.getDescent () + justifyLayout.getLeading ();
}
//--- Validate the page
return (PAGE_EXISTS);
}
}
//*******************Begin QueryResult Method*********************
public void QueryResult()
{
try {
//int recordNumber = rs.getInt( "id" );
// if ( recordNumber != 0 ) {

statement =connection.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE,
ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
String query = "SELECT * FROM pt_order " +
"WHERE contact = '" +
fields.contact.getText() + "'" +
"OR account_number = '" +
fields.accountNumber.getText() + "'" +
"OR phone = '" +
fields.phone.getText() + "'";
rs = statement.executeQuery( query );
//************retrieves the number of rows********
rs.last();
rs.beforeFirst();

textOutput.setText( "Query successful... ");

rs.next();
//statement.close();
//}
//else
//textOutput.append("\nEnter account number here then press Query" );
}
catch ( SQLException sqlex ) {
sqlex.printStackTrace();
textOutput.setText("An error occurred during Query: " + sqlex.toString() );
}
}
//*************************End of Query Result method************************
} // Example5