Perforce JViews Gantt Sample: Printing Load Charts

Description

This sample demonstrates the printing capability of the Resource Data Chart component, showing how to print the Chart on multiple pages.

How to Use the Sample

• Select the Print Preview command in the file menu (or the icon in the toolbar) to get a preview of what you are going to print. This displays the dialog shown at the top of this page.
• Select the Page Setup command in the file menu (or the icon in the toolbar) to customize your pages. You get the following setup box:
  
  
• Clicking on the "Chart Setup" tag brings up the setup for the Resource Data Chart:
  

How to Run the Sample as an Application

This sample can be run as an application. The installation directory contains an executable JAR file, print-resource-data.jar, that allows you to execute the sample with a double click from a file browser. Note that if you are using Internet Explorer, you can open the installation directory and execute the JAR file from the browser. This technique may not work in other Web browsers.

Alternatively, you can run the sample application from the command line. First check that the Ant utility is properly configured. If not, see the instructions on how to configure Ant for Perforce JViews.

Then, go to the installation directory of the sample and type:

ant run

Topics Covered

• Resource Data Chart Printing

Detailed Description

After having launched the Resource Data Print sample, you can print it.

When printing the Resource Data Chart, the spool files generated by the Java print engine may take a lot of hard disk space. This depends on the exact version of the JDK you use, the operating system you run, and the specific printer driver you print to. For some color printers, it is not surprising to see spool files of 50 MB or more. Please make sure that your operating system and printer driver are properly configured to support spool files of this size. Be aware that multiple-page print jobs generate even bigger spool files. If you encounter difficulties printing your project on multiple pages, please try to print them page by page.

Installation Directory

The Printing Load Charts sample is installed here.

Classes Involved

• ilog.views.schedule.print.IlvResourceDataChartPrintingController
• ilog.views.schedule.print.IlvResourceDataChartPrintableDocument

Source Files

• print.ResourceDataPrintExample

  The main class of the sample.

• shared.data.SimpleEngineeringProject

  The in-memory data model for the sample.