Print Hello World in black, outlined in red, to default printer
/* * Printing example snippet: print "Hello World!" in black, outlined in red, to default printer * * For a list of all SWT example snippets see * http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/dev.html#snippets */ import org.eclipse.swt.SWT; import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color; import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Font; import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.GC; import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Point; import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Rectangle; import org.eclipse.swt.printing.Printer; import org.eclipse.swt.printing.PrinterData; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; public class Snippet132 { public static void main(String[] args) { Display display = new Display(); Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.open(); PrinterData data = Printer.getDefaultPrinterData(); if (data == null) { System.out.println("Warning: No default printer."); return; } Printer printer = new Printer(data); if (printer.startJob("SWT Printing Snippet")) { Color black = printer.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLACK); Color white = printer.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_WHITE); Color red = printer.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_RED); Rectangle trim = printer.computeTrim(0, 0, 0, 0); Point dpi = printer.getDPI(); int leftMargin = dpi.x + trim.x; // one inch from left side of // paper int topMargin = dpi.y / 2 + trim.y; // one-half inch from top edge // of paper GC gc = new GC(printer); Font font = gc.getFont(); // example just uses printer's default // font if (printer.startPage()) { gc.setBackground(white); gc.setForeground(black); String testString = "Hello World!"; Point extent = gc.stringExtent(testString); gc.drawString(testString, leftMargin, topMargin + font.getFontData()[0].getHeight()); gc.setForeground(red); gc.drawRectangle(leftMargin, topMargin, extent.x, extent.y); printer.endPage(); } gc.dispose(); printer.endJob(); } printer.dispose(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } display.dispose(); } }