B4J Question [Solved] Printing BBCodeview using jFX8Print, scaling and background color

William Lancee

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I can't get the background to show as white, and after scaling, I can't get the BBCodeview back to original scaling. Any ideas?

I should add that my printer is a black and white HP laser printer, so the faint gray background I see on paper could be a faint color. I don't know.

B4X:
        BBCV.mBase.SetColorAndBorder(xui.Color_White, 0, xui.Color_White, 0)

        Dim P As Printer = Printer_Static.GetDefaultPrinter
        Dim PJ As PrinterJob = PrinterJob_Static.CreatePrinterJob2(P)
        Private pl As PageLayout = P.CreatePageLayout(P.GetPrinterAttributes.GetDefaultPaper, PageOrientation_Static.PORTRAIT, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
        PJ.GetJobSettings.SetPageLayout(pl)
        If PJ.ShowPrintDialog(Null) Then PJ.PrintPage(ScaleOutput(P, BBCV.mBase))
        PJ.EndJob

B4X:
Sub ScaleOutput(P As Printer, N As Node) As Node
    Dim PL As PageLayout = P.GetDefaultPageLayout
    Dim ScaleX,ScaleY As Double
    Dim NJO As JavaObject = N
    Dim JO As JavaObject = N
    ScaleX = PL.GetPrintableWidth / JO.RunMethodJO("getBoundsInParent",Null).RunMethod("getWidth",Null)
    'ScaleY = PL.GetPrintableHeight / JO.RunMethodJO("getBoundsInParent",Null).RunMethod("getHeight",Null)
    ScaleY = ScaleX

    Dim SJO As JavaObject
    SJO.InitializeNewInstance("javafx.scene.transform.Scale",Array(ScaleX,ScaleY))
    NJO.RunMethodJO("getTransforms",Null).RunMethod("add",Array(SJO))
    Return NJO
End Sub
 
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William Lancee

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In making a small project, I saw that although the alpha in the designer for the BBCodeview was 1.0, the color was #00FFFFFF. When I changed that to #FFFFFFFF, the gray background became white as required. Therefore that problem was fixed. I am still uncertain how to reset the scaling after printing, and the attached project also illustrates that the wrapping has some effects that I don't fully understand.
 

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Erel

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You are not using the vertical offset correctly. If you want to put the text in the center of the screen then use this code:
B4X:
BBCV.Text = $"[Alignment=Center][TextSize=20][Color=Black][b]This is a centered Title I am mking it longer to show the effect of wrapping and scaling[/b][/Color][/TextSize][/Alignment]"$
BBCV.mBase.Top = MainForm.RootPane.Height / 2 - BBCV.ForegroundImageView.Height / 2

Not sure whether it will help or not however you can get the bitmap with:
B4X:
Dim iv As ImageView = BBCV.ForegroundImageView
Dim bmp As Image = iv.GetImage
 
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William Lancee

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That was very helpful. By creating a new imageview with the same image, the original scaling is untouched. See post #1 for scaling sub.

B4X:
Sub AppStart (Form1 As Form, Args() As String)
    MainForm = Form1
    MainForm.RootPane.LoadLayout("1")
    MainForm.Show
    
    BBCV.mBase.SetLayoutAnimated(0, .05*MainForm.width, .05*MainForm.Height, .9*MainForm.width, .9*MainForm.Height)
    TextEngine.Initialize(MainForm.RootPane)
    
    Dim verticalCenter As Float = .05*MainForm.Height + .4*MainForm.Height

    MainForm.Show
    
    BBCV.Text = $"[Alignment=Center][TextSize=20][Color=Black][b]This is a centered Title[/b][/Color][/TextSize][/Alignment]"$
    BBCV.mBase.Top = MainForm.RootPane.Height / 2 - BBCV.ForegroundImageView.Height / 2
    
    Dim iv As ImageView = BBCV.ForegroundImageView
    Dim bmp As Image = iv.GetImage

    'This creates a new imageview with a copy of the image that will be scaled by the print job
    'The original BBCV is untouched
    Dim newiv As ImageView: newiv.Initialize("")
    newiv.SetImage(bmp)
        
    Dim P As Printer = Printer_Static.GetDefaultPrinter
    Dim PJ As PrinterJob = PrinterJob_Static.CreatePrinterJob2(P)
    Private pl As PageLayout = P.CreatePageLayout(P.GetPrinterAttributes.GetDefaultPaper, PageOrientation_Static.PORTRAIT, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
    PJ.GetJobSettings.SetPageLayout(pl)
    If PJ.ShowPrintDialog(Null) Then PJ.PrintPage(ScaleOutput(P, newiv))
    PJ.EndJob

End Sub
 
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