Dave, Not sure what you mean by trunk. I assumed it was the first download on squeak.org but it seems a lot harder to extract than Squeak 4.5 was. Anyway it did not work any better on the menu print.
Kirk On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, David T. Lewis <le...@mail.msen.com> wrote: > I just committed a fix for this in Squeak trunk. I don't have a Windows > machine to test it with, but if you are able to update to the latest > Squeak trunk, please give it a try and let me know it it works for you. > Note that this is rather old code with platform dependencies, so I really > cannot say if it is going to work. > > The underlying problem was that the editor hierarchy had been refactored > for Morphic a few years ago, and this particular feature was overlooked. > I added the missing implementation. > > Dave > > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 05:32:27PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote: > > David, > > > > Thanks for the tip to create a file and print with external tools. I > need > > to write a program to extract PO Boxes from a county voter list to send > out > > post cards inviting each voter to sign my petition in a central location > at > > one minute intervals to reduce the crowds. One of them will be to term > > limit the local mayor. So I thought to generate the cards one at a time > > but your way can work. > > Kirk > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:25 PM, David T. Lewis <le...@mail.msen.com> > wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 08:20:13PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 04:43:12PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote: > > > > > Several different things are polymorphically called print. How do > I > > > send > > > > > text to a peripheral printer? I found the menu item "Send > contents to > > > > > printer" and it produced walkback which says > > > > > "MessageNotUnderstood: SmalltalkEditor>sendContentsToPrinter". > Printer > > > > > setup similarly failed yet after the OS supplied the customary > sound > > > that > > > > > the printer was hooked up. > > > > > > > > > > This occurred in Squeak 4.5 under Windows 7. What would solve the > > > problem > > > > > best? Upgrading Squeak? Getting a different printer? Going back > to > > > > > Digitalk Smalltalk/V and a dot matrix ribbon printer where it did > work > > > > > years ago? > > > > > > > > Hi Kirk, > > > > > > > > That MessageNotUnderstood is a bug for sure. I'm surprised nobody > spotted > > > > the MNU until now; I suspect that it has been broken for quite a > while. > > > > > > > > I'm afraid that this is negected functionality. As a workaround, > there > > > are > > > > various ways to export to files which can then be printed. The > contents > > > of > > > > a workspace can be exported to a text file, and any morph can > exported in > > > > various ways (included postscript) by means of the tools button in > morph > > > > halo menus (yellow click on any morph). > > > > > > > > > > Sorry, I guess that would be the blue button (not yellow) that brings > up > > > the morph halos. > > > > > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Beginners mailing list > > > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beginners mailing list > > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners >
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