Standard Windows print dialog

Hi Carl,

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Lou

I have explained what Visibility can do in a private e-mail to Carl. Basically, within Visibility you have full access to all of the print parameters for the chosen printer. You can then adjust these as required.

Note to Lou: Lou, you may not be adept at Turtle Graphics but it gives Visibility a way of producing paged output very quickly and accurately. You can define a page in terms of physical content and dimensions - mm, inches, etc. and after that you can scale the page using a scale percentage. You can range over the whole page putting items when're you want them. It makes producing printed output an absolute doddle and frees you from the need to define print objects. I recommend that you try it.

As an example, for one of my companies I needed a landscape A4 price list that could be converted into a folded A5 booklet. This required full imposition(printing pages across a spread which when folder have the correct page numbers. This was simply put together using Turtle Graphics and thus I could print out an up to date price list from my database on demand. Just an example.

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David

On Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:28:02 PM UTC, Carl Gundel wrote:

Hi,

 

I need access to the standard Windows print dialog.  CwPrinterPrompter just doesn't cut it for my my application.

 

Am I just overlooking it?  Do I need to load it or download it from somewhere?

 

Thanks,

 

-Carl

Unfortunately this does not solve the problem.  So far no one has jumped in to say "Yes of course you can open a native Windows print dialog.  Just do such and such."

On Friday, January 17, 2014 12:38:30 PM UTC-8, Carl Gundel wrote:

Unfortunately this does not solve the problem.  So far no one has jumped in to say "Yes of course you can open a native Windows print dialog.  Just do such and such."

OSCall>>#documentProperties:hPrinter:pDeviceName:pDevModeOutput:pDevModeInput:fMode: calls the Windows function DocumentProperties(). VA only uses it to get the size of the data structure, but you should be able to use it for more things.

Microsoft documentation: <a onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fwindows%2Fdesktop%2Fdd183576%2528v%3Dvs.85%2529.aspx\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNEsgB6iFHIJYpw_VPcNe4WWg-dD3A';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fwindows%2Fdesktop%2Fdd183576%2528v%3Dvs.85%2529.aspx\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNEsgB6iFHIJYpw_VPcNe4WWg-dD3A';return true;" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd183576%28v=vs.85%29.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd183576%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

 You will probably want to back track VA's use of this function to get a better idea of how to use it from Smalltalk. For example, I hacked VA to use 4 instead of 0 for the fMode argument, so it would prompt. I got a Windows printer dialogue for the WebEx printer. Obviously, there much be a way to specify which printer is of interest to you.

I appreciate your input, but it really should be as easy (or nearly so) as PrintDialog new open, right?  ;-)

Hi Dave,

I didn't mean to disparage Turtle Graphics.  I'm sure it is very powerful.  I just didn't want Carl to be off put by its somewhat toy like sounding name.  The first thing you see when you go to the web page is Turtle Graphics.  That's fine, it's powerful, it's important and you are rightly proud it but it may lead people to think the Visibility is less than it is.

I am planing to give Turtle Graphics.  I have some questions but will email you off line.

On Friday, January 17, 2014 3:00:45 PM UTC-5, Totally Objects wrote:

Note to Lou: Lou, you may not be adept at Turtle Graphics but it gives Visibility a way of producing paged output very quickly and accurately. You can define a page in terms of physical content and dimensions - mm, inches, etc. and after that you can scale the page using a scale percentage. You can range over the whole page putting items when're you want them. It makes producing printed output an absolute doddle and frees you from the need to define print objects. I recommend that you try it.

 

I need access to the standard Windows print dialog.  CwPrinterPrompter just doesn't cut it for my my application.

 

Am I just overlooking it?  Do I need to load it or download it from somewhere?

 

Thanks,

 

-Carl

Hello Carl,

 

CwPrinterPrompter is the right class. Unfortunately, the class is a little faulty, nevertheless, it is the right point of start to open the printer driver dialog. A class to open a standard print dialog to make default settings is unknown to me. But I have a question, what will you do with this dialog?

 

Ralf

Am Freitag, 17. Januar 2014 00:28:02 UTC+1 schrieb Carl Gundel:Hi,

 

I need access to the standard Windows print dialog.  CwPrinterPrompter just doesn't cut it for my my application.

 

Am I just overlooking it?  Do I need to load it or download it from somewhere?

 

Thanks,

 

-Carl