1. EU and printing possibilities
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Hello all. I have been hanging out in the background for several months
now. I haven't had the time to keep up with all the EU developments, so
excuse me if this is a repeat.
I have been developing a web app and have run into the problem of printing
nicely formatted reports.
I have come to the conclusion that I am going to need to write my own 'Print
Engine'.
By print engine I mean an app I can call from the browser, feed it args such
as headers, footers, timestamps and items like that. The browsers give no
control over stuff like that, and I need to control them along with the
printing of background images of the html page.
Would Eu be suited for this?
Also, I have seen some comments about X-windows. Does Eu run under X and/or
Linux?
Thanks for your time,
Chris
CJDesigns at sprintmail.com
ICQ: 46872493
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2. Re: EU and printing possibilities
Chris Carbaugh wrote:
> I have come to the conclusion that I am going to need
> to write my own 'Print Engine'.
I don't know the anything about calling an app from a browser, but you have
access to Win32 print functions in Win32Lib.
> Also, I have seen some comments about X-windows.
> Does Eu run under X and/or Linux?
It runs under Linux. It can call Linux libraries, and has been bound to X
Windows, GTK, and other libraries.
-- David Cuny
3. Re: EU and printing possibilities
On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, Chris wrote:
> >%_Hello all. I have been hanging out in the background for several months
> now. I haven't had the time to keep up with all the EU developments, so
> excuse me if this is a repeat.
>
> I have been developing a web app and have run into the problem of printing
> nicely formatted reports.
>
> I have come to the conclusion that I am going to need to write my own 'Print
> Engine'.
> By print engine I mean an app I can call from the browser, feed it args such
> as headers, footers, timestamps and items like that. The browsers give no
> control over stuff like that, and I need to control them along with the
> printing of background images of the html page.
>
> Would Eu be suited for this?
You say you will "call it from the browser", so I assume you're talking about
a cgi program that can be called over the inter/intranet. CGI programs are
easy to write in Euphoria. There are some examples on the Recent Contributions
page of the RDS website.
>Also, I have seen some comments about X-windows. Does Eu run under X and/or
>Linux?
Yes, and yes. An easy to use Euphoria wrapper for GraphApp can be downloaded
from my webpage: http://www.free-host.com/irv
The address for the GraphApp site is also listed, there are excellent tutorials
there.
Regards,
Irv Mullins
