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

[David Faure]

On Monday 10 November 2008, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Ron Goodheart wrote:
> > 
> >  M  +1 -1      calprintdefaultplugins.cpp  
> > 
> > 
> > --- trunk/KDE/kdepim/korganizer/printing/calprintdefaultplugins.cpp #871127:871128
> > @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@
> >    // correct begin and end to first and last day of week
> 
> Hi Ron,
> nice work on the printing stuff.
> I just tried it, but unfortunately it still doesn't solve my problem.
> 
> I'm trying to print the list of events for a meeting that goes from a Thursday morning to a Sunday evening.
> Unfortunately the above code forces it to print the whole week, which includes 3 empty days, and
> which doesn't leave enough room for the events on saturday/sunday (since those have half the space
> in the filofax week print).
> 
> Since the user is asked for start and end days, what's the reason for forcing the start and end days
> to be at week boundaries? Well I guess the reason is "because the layouting code doesn't support
> anything else than printing entire weeks", right? Any idea how I could print a series of 4 days, and only
> those, then? We need a new option in the week print that says "use start/end dates exactly"? (sounds weird)
> Or the opposite "always print entire weeks", maybe.
> 
> David (looking at making a different version of CalPrintPluginBase::drawWeek now...)

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?

Any comments on the feature described above?
I never touched this code so I'm trying to gather some feedback before just committing blindly and stepping on people's toes :-)

-- 
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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