CHtmlView and Printing

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 1 May 2006 11:25:30 -0500
Message-ID:
<445636ad$0$14861$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com>
Hi Everyone,

The CHtmlView is giving me alot of head aches. Here is what I am doing. I
am opening an XML file (being formatted using XLST) in a hidden CHtmlView
and printing it.

Here is how the process goes:
1. I create the XML file on the fly.
2. load the XML file in to CHtmlView.
3. Once loaded I tell it to print the resulting HTML page.
4, I need to delete XML file after the printing is done. (this is the
problem).

I can't figure out how to find out when the CHtmlView is done printing.
CHtmlView::OnFilePrint is asynchronous. And CHtmlView doesn't tell me that
it is currently printing.
(Note: Navigate methods are also asynchronous but you can figure out that
it's not done loading using CHtmlView::GetBusy().)

Here is the code I have so far

      ASSERT(m_pPrintView && m_pPrintView->GetSafeHwnd());

      CString Filename;
      char Buffer[200];
      GetCurrentDirectory(200,Buffer);
      Filename.Format("%sReports\\%ld.xml",Buffer,GetTickCount());

        //generates the XML Document
      LSActivityPrinter Printer(GetDocument()->GetActivity(),this);

Printer.PrinterEditor(Filename,Dlg.m_PrintClues,Dlg.m_PrintFact,Dlg.m_PrintC
ode);

        //load the XML file
      m_pPrintView->Navigate2(Filename);
       //wait while it is loading the XML file
      while (m_pPrintView->GetBusy())
      {
            //pump messages while waiting.
         ((CLSEditorApp *)AfxGetApp())->Yeild();
      }
        //tell it to print the HTML File
      m_pPrintView->OnFilePrint();

      while (m_pPrintView->GetBusy())
      {
         ((CLSEditorApp *)AfxGetApp())->Yeild();
      }

        //delete the XML and any supporting Jpgs
      Printer.Cleanup();

AliR.

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