OpenEuphoria

RE: Printer Dialog Box

• Posted by Virtual B <behaviorself at netzero.net> Sep 25, 2001
• 524 views

Thanks again Wolf.  It works great!  

Virtual B


Wolf wrote:
> ... a bit of 'hacking' here  
> 
> I fooled around with pr123.exw, *after* making EzCreateFont() global in
> win32lib.
> A slight modification to print_stuff() allowed me to specify a different
> font, but I was surprised to find that I had to re-do this for *every*
> page.
> 
> -- modified start to print_stuff()
> 
> procedure print_stuff(sequence a) --a is filename
> atom myphdc, i, j, charheight, width, hor, ver
> sequence mypr, textinfo, string1
> atom xhFont,ok
> mypr=DefaultPrinterName()
> myphdc=GetPrinterDC(mypr)
> 
> -- ez_flags (id,hdc,fontname,size*10,0,attributes,0)
> -- Arial,12,Bold,Italic !!!
> xhFont=EzCreateFont(0,myphdc,"Arial",120,0,3,0)
> ok=w32Func(xSelectObject,{myphdc,xhFont})
> 
> -- and before each ( next page ) I had to do this again:
> 
> 
> ok=w32Func(xDeleteObject,{ok})
> ok=w32Func(xSelectObject,{myphdc,xhFont})
> 
> BTW, as Derek reminded me, this stuff won't work in WinNT/2000, because 
> the
> flag PRINTER_ENUM_DEFAULT used in printws.ew can NOT be used in this OS.
> -- reading a Win2000 registry isn't my thing, since I don't have access 
> to
> one...
> 
> Wolf
> 
>