QPrinter - How to print a selected .txt file

d_ly56

Hi All,

I've been doing research on QPrinter/QPrintDialog/QPainter and I am getting extremely confused. A lot of the code that I am reading doesn't really pertain to me because they are printing directly from the GUI widgets (ui->textedit->print()).

Here is what I have so far on my code....

void MainGui::on_actionPrint_Telemetry_triggered()
{
    QPrinter printer;

    QPrintDialog dialogp(&printer, this);
    dialogp.setWindowTitle(tr("Print Document"));

    if (dialogp.exec() != QDialog::Accepted)
    {
        return;
    }
}

So, I would like to be able to have the user choose the file that they want to print. I already have a save function that is taking the data that I have and saving it to a .txt file. I'm sure I am just way overthinking this, but any help is appreciated!!

Thanks All,
Derek

mrjj

Hi
The easy way would to use
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextdocument.html
as it can directly print to printer object.
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextdocument.html#print

there is also the option of drawing the texts yourself but i get the feeling you just want to print
the text document as is ?

d_ly56

Hey @mrjj ,

Thanks for your quick response! Yay, I can print!

And you are correct! I do just want to print :D

Thanks again for all of your help! This worked perfectly!!
Derek