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Overview of the Print Setup Dialog Box |
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As opposed to directly printing a file, a user may want
to perform some preliminary preparation on the file or the printer.
Microsoft Windows provides another dialog box used to control printing. It
is called Print Setup:
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When using the Print Setup dialog box, the user must
first select a printer. This is usually done already by the operating
system that selects the default printer of the computer that called this
dialog box. Otherwise, if there is more than one printer, the user can
change it using the Name combo box.
The options of the Print Setup dialog box depend on
the driver of the printer selected in the Name combo box.
The Print Setup dialog box allows the user to select a
printer, if there is more than one, and to customize the appearance of the
paper on which the document would be printed. On the Print Setup, the user
can click the arrow of the Size combo box and select one of the configured
sizes of paper:
If the printer has many trays, as indicated by the
driver of the selected printer, the user can select which tray would be
used when printing. As it happens, one printer can have only one tray
while another printer can have 3, 5, or more:
If the desired printer is on a network, the user can
click the Network button to locate it. He or she also has the option to
print the document in Portrait (vertical) or in Landscape (horizontal)
position.
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Creation of the Print Setup Dialog box
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In VCL applications, the Print Setup dialog box is
provided by the TPrinterSetupDialog class. To make a Print Setup
dialog available, at design time, from the Dialogs property sheet of the
Tool Palette, click the PrintSetupDialog button and click on the form.
Because the options of the Print Setup dialog box are configured and
controlled by the driver of the printer selected, there is no significant
configuration you need to perform.
