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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #5 on: Jun 19th, 2015, 06:22am » |
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thanks tsh73, got my code to work with your help.
Just a quick question, is there a command to forced printout on landscape mode without user interaction?
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #6 on: Jun 19th, 2015, 07:13am » |
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Quote:| is there a command to forced printout on landscape mode without user interaction? |
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I have no idea but search at Liberty Basic forum returned this thread
Landscape Printing
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #7 on: Jun 19th, 2015, 09:22am » |
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on Jun 19th, 2015, 06:22am, hammerjit wrote:| is there a command to forced printout on landscape mode without user interaction? |
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It's a bit of a kludge, but you could use the published BBC routine and add the 'BBC BASIC escape' character to every line:
Code:SUB landscape
!LOCAL psd%, dm%
!DIM psd% LOCAL 83
!!psd% = 84
!psd%!16 = 1024
!SYS "PageSetupDlg", psd%
!SYS "GlobalLock", psd%!8 TO dm%
!dm%!40 = 1
!dm%?44 = 2
!SYS "ResetDC", @prthdc%, dm%
!SYS "GlobalUnlock", psd%!8
!SYS "GlobalFree", psd%!8
!SYS "GlobalFree", psd%!12
!*MARGINS 10,10,10,10
END SUB
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #8 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 01:57am » |
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Thanks Richard...it works 
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #9 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 05:47am » |
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In an ideal world there should be some way of setting, in code, all the things that the user can set using PAGESETUPDIALOG (i.e. the paper size, orientation and margins). Can anybody think of a sensible syntax for this?
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #10 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 07:00am » |
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Quote:| Can anybody think of a sensible syntax for this? |
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Named parameters, like in VBA?
Not listed get default values.
If position accept list, like list of pages, let it be string "1-5, 7, 9".
Or just one big string with named parameters list inside
("pages = 1-5, 7, 9 ; orientation = landscape; leftMargin = 1.5 cm")
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #11 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 11:36am » |
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on Jun 23rd, 2015, 07:00am, tsh73 wrote:Or just one big string with named parameters list inside
("pages = 1-5, 7, 9 ; orientation = landscape; leftMargin = 1.5 cm") |
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So, for consistency with other LB printer settings, you are proposing something like:
Code:PrinterSetup$ = "orientation = landscape; leftMargin = 1.5 cm"
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #12 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 12:16pm » |
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well, kind of.
May be - for consistency with LB GUI commands - get rid of "=", so it becames
Code:PrinterSetup$ = "orientation landscape; leftMargin 1.5 cm"
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #13 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 3:57pm » |
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on Jun 23rd, 2015, 12:16pm, tsh73 wrote:| May be - for consistency with LB GUI commands |
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I think I'd be inclined to simplify even further:
Code: PrinterName$ = "DoPDF v7"
PrinterFont$ = "Arial 12 bold"
PrinterColor$ = "blue"
PrinterSetup$ = "landscape 15 10 10 10"
I should add that at present I have no plans for a new release of LBB but I'll make a mental note of the possibility of such additions should the atmosphere change.
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #14 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 4:18pm » |
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PrinterName$ = "DoPDF v7"
PrinterFont$ = "Arial 12 bold"
PrinterColor$ = "blue"
PrinterSetup$ = "landscape 15 10 10 10"
Doesn't it look like too many reserved words?
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #15 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 7:36pm » |
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on Jun 23rd, 2015, 4:18pm, tsh73 wrote:| Doesn't it look like too many reserved words? |
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What problems do you see, and what is the alternative? Combining PrinterColor$ and PrinterSetup$ in a single new command seems to me illogical and inconsistent with the rest of LB, and the compatibility issues arising from having both are minimal.
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #16 on: Jun 23rd, 2015, 8:03pm » |
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I see single entity - printer - and several keywords associated with it
PrinterName$
PrinterFont$
PrinterColor$
PrinterSetup$
Suppose you will want to add two side printing or DPI setting or paper size - will you add still another word?
I think pack it all in single string is better, much like OPEN COM from LBB helpfile:
Code:open "COMn: [baud=b] [parity=p] [data=d] [stop=s]
[to=on|off] [xon=on|off] [odsr=on|off] [octs=on|off]
[dtr=on|off|hs] [rts=on|off|hs|tg] [idsr=on|off]"
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #17 on: Jun 24th, 2015, 04:10am » |
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on Jun 23rd, 2015, 8:03pm, tsh73 wrote:| Suppose you will want to add two side printing or DPI setting or paper size - will you add still another word? |
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Of course not - those are setup features which would be set using PrinterSetup$.
Quote:| I think pack it all in single string is better |
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Mixing things which can only be changed before you print (e.g. page layout) with things that can be changed within a page (e.g. font and colour) is wrong in my opinion. But since we disagree to such a great extent it is probably better if I forget this feature altogether.
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #18 on: Jun 24th, 2015, 06:59am » |
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Quote:| Mixing things which can only be changed before you print (e.g. page layout) with things that can be changed within a page (e.g. font and colour) is wrong in my opinion. |
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Ok I admit I never thought of this from this point.
You are right.
Quote:But since we disagree to such a great extent it is probably better if I forget this feature altogether.
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No-no-no.
You are the boss. You asked for suggestions - here we are - but decision is yours.
And feature implemented in different way is much better then feature non-inplemented, IMHO.
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Re: printing to printer
« Reply #19 on: Jun 24th, 2015, 09:09am » |
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Richard....your suggestion is good, please do consider if there is future enhancement.
btw...another question on this printing....if the output goes more than 2 pages, is there a way for us to put a header for each page? and also page number?
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