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Re: Win32 questions--- + Win32Lib qs

• Posted by "Cuny, David" <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV> Aug 17, 1999
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Mike Hurley wondered:

> Does the new Win32Lib have printing in it?

No, not yet. I was hoping to get Llama released a month ago (it has weak
printing support), but that didn't happen. Perhaps I'll go and patch
Win32Lib to support printing in the mean time.


> When printing, can you tell Windows what font to use?

Yes. Basically, just about any graphic command you can use on the screen can
be used with a printer.


> I also noticed that it uses winspool.dll ...

I call winspool.drv; I *think* that's in NT.

In order to add printing in Win32Lib, I'd probably create a default device
called Printer. The main code changes would be to getDC() and releaseDC(),
which would have to return the DC from SelectPrinter. Printing might look
something like this:

   -- select the printer. this ensures that Printer has
   -- a DC in it from SelectPrinter.
   if choosePrinter() then

      -- start of document
      startDoc()

      -- start of page
      startPage()

        -- print something
      selectFont( Printer, "New Century Schoolbook", 12, Bold )
      moveTo( Printer, 1, 1 )
      wPuts( Printer, "Hello, World!" )

      -- end of page
      endPage()

      -- end of document
      endDoc()

   end if

As usual, I'm in the middle of a couple of other projects at the moment.

-- David Cuny