Simple Printing Example

[Java Tip]

import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.GC;
import org.eclipse.swt.printing.PrintDialog;
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 SimplePrint {
  Display display = new Display();
  Shell shell = new Shell(display);

  public SimplePrint() {
    shell.pack();
    shell.open();

    PrintDialog dialog = new PrintDialog(shell);
    // Opens a dialog and let use user select the 
    // target printer and configure various settings.
    PrinterData printerData = dialog.open();
    if(printerData != null) { // If a printer is selected
      // Creates a printer.
      Printer printer = new Printer(printerData);
      // Starts the print job.
      if(printer.startJob("Text")) {
        GC gc = new GC(printer);

        // Starts a new page.
        if(printer.startPage()) {
          gc.drawString("Eclipse", 200, 200);
          // Finishes the page. 
          printer.endPage();
        }
        gc.dispose();
        // Ends the job.
        printer.endJob();
      }
      // Disposes the printer object after use. 
      printer.dispose();
      System.out.println("Print job done.");
    }
    // Set up the event loop.
    while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
      if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
        // If no more entries in event queue
        display.sleep();
      }
    }

    display.dispose();
  }

  private void init() {

  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    new SimplePrint();
  }
}