.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell

Name

PrintControllerWithStatusDialog

Synopsis

This class, derived from System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController, provides a status dialog while printing occurs. The dialog is hosted on a separate thread, and it automatically updates the document title and page number as printing continues.

The implementation of this class is interesting, as it illustrates one way of managing a multithreaded progress dialog. A decompilation tool such as Anakrino allows you to examine this for yourself.

public class PrintControllerWithStatusDialog : System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController {

// Public Constructors

   public PrintControllerWithStatusDialog(System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController underlyingController);

   public PrintControllerWithStatusDialog(System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController underlyingController,

        string dialogTitle);

// Public Instance Methods

   public override void OnEndPage(System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument document,

        System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e);  // overrides System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController

   public override void OnEndPrint(System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument document,

        System.Drawing.Printing.PrintEventArgs e);  // overrides System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController

   public override Graphics OnStartPage(System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument document, 

        System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e);  // overrides System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController

   public override void OnStartPrint(System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument document, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintEventArgs ...