Package jam.util

Class PrintUtilities

java.lang.Object
jam.util.PrintUtilities
All Implemented Interfaces:
Printable

public class PrintUtilities extends Object implements Printable
A simple utility class that lets you very simply print an arbitrary component. Just pass the component to the PrintUtilities.printComponent. The component you want to print doesn't need a print method and doesn't have to implement any interface or do anything special at all.

If you are going to be printing many times, it is marginally more efficient to first do the following:

 PrintUtilities printHelper = new PrintUtilities(theComponent);
 
then later do printHelper.print(). But this is a very tiny difference, so in most cases just do the simpler PrintUtilities.printComponent(componentToBePrinted).

7/99 Marty Hall, http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/ May be freely used or adapted.

  • Constructor Details

    • PrintUtilities

      public PrintUtilities(Component componentToBePrinted)
    • PrintUtilities

      public PrintUtilities(Component componentToBePrinted, boolean scaled)
  • Method Details

    • printComponent

      public static void printComponent(Component c)
    • printComponentScaled

      public static void printComponentScaled(Component c)
    • print

      public void print()
    • print

      public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex)
      Specified by:
      print in interface Printable
    • printScaled

      public int printScaled(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex)
    • printScaled

      public static int printScaled(Component componentToBePrinted, Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex)
    • disableDoubleBuffering

      public static void disableDoubleBuffering(Component c)
      The speed and quality of printing suffers dramatically if any of the containers have double buffering turned on. So this turns if off globally.
    • enableDoubleBuffering

      public static void enableDoubleBuffering(Component c)
      Re-enables double buffering globally.