Sending to the Printer
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| Anyone know how to print to a printer from BMax? |
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| Is MSPaint.exe still the only way to print stuff? |
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| I too would like to know. Maybe via custom .dll? |
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| It should be perfectly possible to do it with the WinAPI (or Carbon/Xlib) |
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| Cool...wish I had a clue how to do that lol. |
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| What about GadgetPrint? (Or is it MaxGUI only :) |
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| MaxGUI only but yes, the simplest way to print is to construct an html page, load it into an HTMLView and call GadgetPrint. A PrintPixmap routine that did such a thing would be handy, or some specific code for each OS, windows printers aren't much fun to talk to that's for sure. |
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| If we had access to the GDI in an easy package, it would be relatively easy to print. |
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| What windows .dll handles the printer? I'll take a shot at this. |
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| There are somethings best compiled in C, importing such functions into BlitzMax being pretty easy. The following source (untested) is what i found after googling PRINTDLG GlobalLock and gives you an idea of the amount of code you are dealing with in regards to performing print jobs. http://home.wanadoo.nl/hhaydn/Winatom/html/Prncdlg.htm |
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| Why not support print on gadgets? In Visual Basic any form can be printed by calling it's print function (VB .NET. Not that I use such horror ;) |
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| Mad props to anyone who finally quenches the thirst to print properly in blitz. I'm *guessing* calling the print setup and print command would be similar to calling the color requester. /duck |
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| calling scanner would be nice too! |
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| Kanati did a printer DLL for Blitz/3D/Plus. Not sure how much work would be involved in using it in Max. |
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