Printing using the Printer
 

The program I'm working on reads info from a MYSQL database and displays it onto a JTextArea. I need to print what is displayed, but in the API, it seems to profer printing from files. Writing to a file then printing from it is a little wierd, what can I do?

One way to go about it would be to create a class that extends JTextArea and implements Printable.

Then you could just add a print() method, that calls printJob.setPrintable(this) along the way.


In the 1.6 JDK, all classes that inherit from JTextComponent have support for printing by default, so you won't have to do this anymore.

Ah, thank you very much. I will try it out as soon as I fix a couple critical errors...