Printing in swing

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Hola ranchers.
I am developing a Swing application, and the main form contains *as usual* text fields combo boxes..... and a button called 'Print'.
I want when I filled these fields and press Print button, it should print a paper (ofcourse using the printer) containing these information.
How to perform this task using swing??

[Joe Ess]

The Java Tutorial: Printing

[Hussein Baghdadi]

I mean, I want to print the information that I have entered into the text fields into a paper using the printer.

[Joe Ess]

And the printing tutorial told you, what, how to arrange flowers?
This example from the tutorial is about as simple as it gets (excluding the ugly drawShapes method).

[Paul Bailey]

Okay, but this line doens't work for me:
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printJob.setPrintable(this);
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It says
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edu/yak/Main.java:548: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : method setPrintable (edu.yak.Main.ScheduleJPanel)
location: class java.awt.print.PrinterJob
printJob.setPrintable(this);
^
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You might notice that I am using an inner class here, but that inner class is a JPanel. It doesn't work if I use printJob.setPrintable(new JPanel()) either!
darn example!

[Eddie Vanda]

Originally posted by Paul Bailey:
edu/yak/Main.java:548: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : method setPrintable (edu.yak.Main.ScheduleJPanel)
location: class java.awt.print.PrinterJob
printJob.setPrintable(this);

I just compiled the example ok. May be if you are in an inner class perhaps it has problems accessing the printJob variable. From an inner class you can only access final variables from the enclosing class. I noticed that the example implemented ActionListener so does not need to use inner classes.