Seems like a good feature to have.

@chrisjlocke So.. this might be a good starter project for your C++/Qt learning? 😄

Oh crap.... 😉

Nice, that is a good start to my earlier schema diagram request.

This is, more or less, one of the points that I've implemented so far for my issue #1525. The output is very simple, but it may fit your needs. @chrisjlocke, if you'd like to try, it's already in the nightly build.

I downloaded 180927 nightly and nothing happens when I click 'Database Structure - Print'?

Ditto - nothing happens at all if I select 'Print' from any context menu.

Weird... Maybe we are affected by this Qt bug But it should be fixed in QT 5.2.1, if I understand it correctly.

Ok, can you bypass the print step and just export the canvas to an image and display it within the DB4S gui?

Let's try with a Print Preview Dialog instead of a Print Dialog. Maybe it works around the problem and nevertheless, it's nice to have it. I've changed only the Database Structure tab for the moment. Could you test it again with tomorrow's nightly build?

I've reproduced the problem under Windows. At least the print preview version works until you press the Print icon; then only the PDF export is possible, the print dialog for choosing printers, PDF format and print settings doesn't show up.

It seems that Qt has portability problems in this regard. I'll use the print preview in all the scenarios and at least we'll have PDF support.

Reading the linked bug report:

yes, I followed the Deployment Guide for Windows and putted the platform and printsupport folder into the folder of my executable file as well as the Qt5*.dll's

I see that we distribute a Qt5PrintSupport.dll file, but no printsupport folder. Reading Qt for Windows - Deployment

Your application may also depend on one or more Qt plugins, such as the print support plugin, the JPEG image format plugin or a SQL driver plugin. Be sure to distribute any Qt plugins that you need with your application. Similar to the platform plugin, each type of plugin must be located within a specific subdirectory (such as printsupport, imageformats or sqldrivers) within your distribution directory.

@justinclift, can the printsupport plugin be distributed inside the nightly build? I guess that will solve the problem. This is similar to the image-formats case that you already solved, isn't it?

@mgrojo There's only one dll (windowsprintersupport.dll) inside printsupport folder. Do you mean adding this file?

@karim I suppose we have to add the complete folder with whatever it contains. If there's only that file inside, I guess that is the only one needed.

Yes, there is only one file in my Qt 5.7.1 installation. I just added it.

Great. That should work. Let's see with tomorrow's nightly build.

Tried latest nightly and the print action only creates a tabular listing of my database?
Was the graphical schema deployed or still in development?

No, sorry @sky5walk. I consider that another feature that it's covered in #913 and #1260. Through this development line I only plan to add icons to fields and maybe to tables, views, etc. This is just a print-out of the DB Structure view.