How to print scrolling form in vb6

[PressingOn]

I would like to print the contents of an MDI child form that is much larger than the screen size. When I use the statement

myform.printform

only the first part of the form is printed (essentially the part that would be captured by a screen capture). Is there any relatively straightforward way to print the entire form, e.g., over multiple pages?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Hack]

Not that I'm aware.

Perhaps doing a printform - scroll - printform - scroll - etc?

[PressingOn]

Hack, Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that approach. Unfortunately the PrintForm method still printed only the top of the form.

[Hack]

Try this for the printing instead of Me.PrintForm

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, _
ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)

Private Const VK_MENU As Byte = &H12
Private Const VK_SNAPSHOT As Byte = &H2C
Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2

Private Sub PrintTheForm()
Dim lWidth As Long, lHeight As Long
    Clipboard.Clear
    Call keybd_event(VK_MENU, 0, 0, 0)
    Call keybd_event(VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, 0, 0)
    DoEvents
    Call keybd_event(VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0)
    Call keybd_event(VK_MENU, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0)
    Printer.Print
    If Width > Printer.ScaleWidth Then
        lWidth = Printer.ScaleWidth
        lHeight = (Printer.ScaleWidth / Width) * Height
    Else
        lWidth = Width
        lHeight = Height
    End If
    Printer.PaintPicture Clipboard.GetData, 0, 0, lWidth, lHeight
    Printer.EndDoc
End Sub

This actually takes a pictures (or a "snapshot") of what is actually on the screen, so it should capture what is there after you do a scroll.

[CptNeutral]

Looks like Hack's solved it for you, but i was going to suggest SavePicture(), to save the form's image to a file, and print it. Not sure whether it'd work with an MDI form's child though

[Hack]

Looks like Hack's solved it for you, but i was going to suggest SavePicture(), to save the form's image to a file, and print it. Not sure whether it'd work with an MDI form's child though

That isn't a bad idea actually, with one potential "gotcha" and that is that SavePicture, which will save the contents of a picturebox control, is only going to save the contents in a bitmap format. This restricts the size to 1600x1200x24 bits.

This might not be an issue in this case, but it is something worth noting.

[CptNeutral]

I didn't know that, thanks.

[PressingOn]

Both ideas seem to work. Thanks much!

[Hack]

Great!

CptNeutral's idea would be a good way to save a picture of the screen at any given point in time.

[CptNeutral]

Glad to have helped.