[Kde-pim] Partial week printing (Re: KDE/kdepim/korganizer/printing)

[David Faure]

On Monday 01 December 2008, Ron Goodheart wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2008 15:20:41 David Faure wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Ron Goodheart wrote:
> > > Exactly right, it was because it was setup to print weeks at a time. My
> > > emphasis was just to go through fixing stuff since the printing needed
> > > some care. I think we would need a new option for printing the range
> > > specified, not weeks. BTW - this tripped me up initially as well since
> > > the GUI allows a day range not weeks.
> >
> > Yep, confusing.
> >
> > I hacked this into the (uncommitted) code for now, can be connected to a
> > checkbox "[ ] Always print entire weeks" in the future, unless someone has
> > a better idea for a GUI.
> >
> > > > This printing code works for me -- except that drawDayBox doesn't wrap
> > > > long lines, so an event with a long title gets truncated... Any ideas
> > > > on how to fix that?
> > >
> > > I saw that too - it could be treated the way the month print does it,
> > > printing and wrapping the title in a sub-box. The month printing allows
> > > an option to allow truncation as really long titles can end up using all
> > > of the space.
> >
> > Ah -- thanks a lot for that hint. Problem solved by adding a similar
> > checkbox in the "week" printing.
> >
> > I also added a "include description" checkbox in the week printing, we
> > needed the company meeting schedule to include the longer description
> > entered into each event.
> >
> > The resulting patch is attached -- but obviously it has to wait until after
> > the 4.2 freeze; I hope it still applies then :-)
> >
> > If I forget to come back to this issue (I know I will), feel free to commit
> > this code or to ping me about it.
> 
> David,
> I like the way this prints the range of days an think it will be a nice 
> addition to the printing choices.
> I'm integrating the patch into the other changes I have been making for the 
> printing as they overlap with what I have been doing (fixing the truncated 
> lines, color printing, etc).  However, I believe it should be a day print 
> option rather than week since the day selection prints a range of days, week 
> prints range of weeks, etc. 

This is very true, good point.

> I'll get this committed with the other printing changes. 

Excellent, thanks a lot!

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Qt Software @ Nokia to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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