"Duncan - what has happened to your formatting?? " Sorry I have been playing with the stettings in OE and thought I had improved them - obviously not!!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rich Mellor Sent: 28 November 2004 17:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:08:14 -0000, Duncan Neithercut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rich, > Whats wrong with a back ground job started at boot with low priority > as the intermediate. Didn't say there was anything wrong with this - it sounded quite a good idea. Its the communications which are a problem... > It could : look for a configuration file and read that in & then know > to clear the pipe anytime something is put into it by PFF device & > save the contents of the pipe to a designated location on disk > - ram rom win flp if so configured > call the appropriate filter eg Quill files configured to be > treated as ASCII as no printer driver loaded for this version of > Quill. Text 87 files treated as ESCP2 and a proportional font > used for printing. QD files have FF added by the filter and so on upto > the user > Or call the GUI before exec ing a filter if thats the configuration > set up. Hmm I guess this could be an answer - the pipe from the PFF device could be kept relatively small and would soon be emptied as the Printer Control Program would soon open a channel to the temporary storage area and copy the information from the pipe to there... Good idea unless anyone else sees a problem here.... > > GUI could be used to change configuration at run time and > inform the background task by printing the new config file to the > PFF device with a header that tells it to read the new configuration > rather than call a filter etc Yes - that could be an idea - the header to tell it to read the new configuration data MUST containt non-printable codes however (otherwise you might get this special header inside a document - eg. the manual !!) Duncan - what has happened to your formatting?? Also, please don't quote the whole of an email - just the relevent parts as it makes it awkward to read. > > Duncan Neithercut -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
