Calling a USB printer from BlitzMax
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| I am writing my first project using BlitzMax and have the requirement to output to a USB printer. The printers will only be the one type and drivers will be intalled by windows, but how do I get BlitzMax to communicate with it? I cannot see any printer commands. What I would like to do is design a bitmap which I then draw offscreen adding text etc and then send that to the printer rather than just plain text Is this possible? Many thanks Gary |
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| Hi Gary, have a look here: http://www.radioactivegamer.com/Blitz/ . It's a dll from Kanati who provides us for years now with really cool stuff. I once used that lib as well when developing under windows and I will use it again when I have to. Some more information: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=30384 If you're working under UNIX, you can simply use "lp". You then just have to convert your docs to PostScript and send the path to "lp". PostScript isn't really hard to learn. I use that as well and I'm very happy with it. Greetings Simon |
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| The toolbox one with Blitzmax code doesn't work with the later Blitzmax versions, IIRC... Don't know about the DLL, but it has a VB6 dependency. |
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| many thanks for the quick replies. I will have a look at them now |
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| Hello, if you use MaxGUI, there is a GadgetPrint() function for textarea as well. also wxMax holds printing functions with even more variaty. If you are developing just for Windows then MSDN-library provides a solution. -Henri |
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