QPrinter and QPainter do not print to local printer under Windows (QT4)

[derda17]

Hi,

I'm having some troubles with printing under Windows. I'm setting a qprinter via a qprintdialog and pass the qprinter to a method which creates a qpainter on the qprinter. Essentially:



void functionA()
{
QPrinter printer;
printer.setColorMode( QPrinter::Color );
printer.setOrientation( QPrinter::Landscape );
QPrintDialog printDialog( &printer, this );
if ( printDialog.exec() != QDialog::Accepted )
return;
print( printer );
}

void print( QPrinter &printer )
{
printer.setOutputFormat( QPrinter::PdfFormat );
printer.setPaperSize( _gttPrintDialog->pdfPaperSize() );
printer.setFullPage( true );
QPainter painter( &printer );
// ...work with the painter...
}


This results in no printout under Windows but under Linux there are no problems. Additionally, as soon as I define the printer inside print(...) everything works like a charm. Sadly, this is no permanent option and it seems like QPrinter can neither be passed by value nor can be copied to a local variable.
What's the reason for this behavior under Windows and is there any solution simpler than passing qpainters instead of qprinters and restructer the whole call tree of paint(...)?

[anda_skoa]

I doubt this has anything to do with passing the printer by reference, but you could try passing it by pointer.

Cheers,
_