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How to print something that is not set initially

 
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Basically I need to make a program that will print out the animal letters that the user enters into a textbox. I don't know how many letters will be entered so I need to get it after the button has been pressed to define the animals[]. But this doesn't work, the print dialog box opens and nothing appears. Yet if I specify that animals was String[] animals = new String[5] at the beginning, I will get 5 pages in the print preview. How can I get this to show without specifying it ahead of time? thanks for any help, I've been stuck on this for days.

 
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Can you post an SSCCE that shows the problem? Because I've created my own little SSCCE and it prints out what I expect.
 
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Ok, so here is a working example. when I type in "cat, dog, cow" and press printer, I see that nothing has happened in the print preview. There should be 3 pages with cat dog and cow on them. I'm not sure what's going on?

 
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Hi

I think its because you are creating a new instance of BillPrinter and passing it to setPrintable : printJob.setPrintable(new BillPrinter());

Instead this you should pass this reference to setPrintable: printJob.setPrintable(this);
 
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that did it. Thanks
 
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