I'm trying to print a Window
containing a single TextBox
. When displayed on screen the red validation error border is correctly present. When printed via PrintDialog
, the border is missing. The window is defined as:
public partial class ReportPage : INotifyDataErrorInfo
{
public ReportPage()
{
DataContext = this;
SomeText = "hi there";
InitializeComponent();
}
public string SomeText { get; set; }
public IEnumerable GetErrors(string propertyName)
{
return propertyName == "SomeText" ? new [] {"some error"} : null;
}
public bool HasErrors => true;
public event EventHandler<DataErrorsChangedEventArgs> ErrorsChanged;
}
Note how it serves as the Window
, view model, and error implementation. It specifies that the lone property, SomeText, is in error. The corresponding XAML is as follows:
<Window x:Class="ReportPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d">
<Grid x:Name="MainContent" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<TextBox x:Name="MyText" Text="{Binding SomeText}"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
To print the contents of the Window
I use:
var printDialog = new PrintDialog { PrintTicket = { PageOrientation = PageOrientation.Portrait } };
printDialog.ShowDialog();
var caps = printDialog.PrintQueue.GetPrintCapabilities(printDialog.PrintTicket);
var rect = new Rect(new Point(caps.PageImageableArea.OriginWidth, caps.PageImageableArea.OriginHeight),
new Size(caps.PageImageableArea.ExtentWidth, caps.PageImageableArea.ExtentHeight));
var pageSize = rect.Size;
var origin = rect.TopLeft;
var fullSize = new Size(printDialog.PrintTicket.PageMediaSize.Width.Value,
printDialog.PrintTicket.PageMediaSize.Height.Value);
var page = new ReportPage
{
Margin = new Thickness(
Math.Max(72 - origin.X, 0),
Math.Max(48 - origin.Y, 0),
Math.Max(72 - (fullSize.Width - pageSize.Width - origin.X), 0),
Math.Max(96 - (fullSize.Height - pageSize.Height - origin.Y), 0))
};
page.MainContent.Measure(pageSize);
page.MainContent.Arrange(new Rect(origin, pageSize));
page.MainContent.UpdateLayout();
printDialog.PrintVisual(page.MainContent, "some description");
I see the TextBox
just fine, but no red border. I've tried adding an <AdornerDecorator>
around the MainContent Grid
to no avail. What happens when showing a Window
on-screen to cause the red border to be visible that doesn't happen when printing?
First, adornments aren't rendered without showing the Window
. To fix this the Window
, prior to printing, is shown off-screen (Left
/Top
are arbitrarily set to -10000 and ShowInTaskbar
/ShowActivated
are set to false
):
page.Show();
page.MainContent.Measure(pageSize);
page.MainContent.Arrange(new Rect(origin, pageSize));
page.MainContent.UpdateLayout();
printDialog.PrintVisual(page.MainContent, "some description");
Second, there's no adornment layer when printing just MainContent, so one must added (see XPS Printing of an Adorner:
<Window x:Class="ReportPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
ShowInTaskbar="False"
Left="-10000"
Top="-10000"
ShowActivated="False">
<Window.Resources>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ContentControl}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ContentControl}">
<AdornerDecorator>
<ContentPresenter
Content="{TemplateBinding Content}"
ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}" />
</AdornerDecorator>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
<ContentControl x:Name="MainContent" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<TextBox x:Name="MyText" Text="{Binding SomeText}"/>
</Grid>
</Window>