[Pythoncard-users] printing support on the way

I just did the following test from the Shell using the simpleBrowser sample
and it worked correctly under Windows and Cliff confirmed that it works
under Linux, so I think we have a simple cross-platform solution for
printing in the form of a wrapped wxHtmlEasyPrinting class.

simpleBrowser.py -s  # this opens to the diveintopython site

Then I opened the docs/html/index.html file of PythonCardPrototype, though
you should be able to use any URL or text. Then in the shell I did:

>>> from wxPython import wx
>>> source = comp.htmlDisplay._delegate.GetParser().GetSource()
>>> base = comp.htmlDisplay._delegate.GetParser().GetFS().GetPath()
>>> base
'C:/python/PythonCardPrototype/docs/html/'
>>> from wxPython import html
>>> p = html.wxHtmlEasyPrinting()
>>> p.PrintText(source, base)

This brought up a print dialog and I clicked okay. With a few utility
wrappers, this should let us easily print anything that wxWindows can
display: plain text files, formatted files using the limited set of HTML
available to us, images, etc. without worrying about platform differences.
We can support the more elaborate wxPython printing methods as well for
better font support, but this will get us started.

Note that the Python Powered GIF
(http://webware.sourceforge.net/PythonPowered.gif) doesn't show up if you
open index.html because of the Host: header not being sent in the current
wxHTTP class, that is supposedly fixed in wxWindows cvs and will work in
wxPython 2.3.3.

If you want to experiment on your own, look at the wxHTML notes in the
wxWindows documentation for more information about specific classes and
methods.

ka