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Alex,

This code is asking the AWT to print all the components in your Frame.
What should be printed depends on the components you have added to your
Frame before this is called.  The components are in turn asked to draw
themselves.  Since you are doing this before the Frame is shown, you may
have some odd behavior.

You should be aware that printAll() is in some way broken in most of the
VMs out there.  JDK1.1.5 has bugs logged against it.  So what *should*
print is not necessarily what *will* print, even if you code it properly.
The peers tend to misbehave in this case.

If you just want to print a string, you should call
myGraphics.drawString(...), not printAll(...).

- Marc

Alex Humphreys wrote:

> I'm trying to print a string, but for some reason I get Windows' Print
> Dialog, but then Nothing Prints.  I've tried to follow the instructions
> I've found in this newsgroup, and nothing seems to help.
>
> I have the following in my jbinit of a Frame I just created.  the print
> dialog comes after the first line, so the Graphics calls don't seem to
> do anything.
>
>     PrintJob myJob =
> Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getPrintJob(this,"AlexH",new Properties());
>     Graphics myGraphics = myJob.getGraphics();
>     this.printAll(myGraphics);
>     myGraphics.dispose();
>     myJob.end();
>
> (incidentally, what should be printed if I do this?  an image of the
> Frame?  A string that I can specify?)
>
> Thanks.
> --Alex