Harrie,
Thanks for the reply as right now I am doing it the old fashion way of,
create a box, then print, then recheck it, then reprint it, so on an so on,
and so on. This is really eating up paper and ink.
I had to do it in the old compiler (Rapid-Q) as well, but one thing about RB
is that is handles printing better then Rapid-Q did as the printing is done
on a Graphics Base instead of the old LPT coding. LPrint "Hello world".
The main reason or two at least for me moving to RealBasic is (1) Cross
Platform programming and (2) Printing that is compatible to newer printers.
Rapid-Q had troubles on some computers as when you would print out a form
lets say, it would print OK on mine, but on someone else's, it would print
the text to large or at times to small, and the graphics either over sized
or under sized. I found out later it was due to the fact that Rapid-Q was
still using the old BASIC LPRINT print method found on old DOS type systems.
Even though Rapid-Q runs in Windows, it still printed using the older DOS
BASIC LPRINT type printing.
I had many users email and one even called me asking how to fix this. I
never could fix the issue. It was really noticeable on newer USB printers.
I am in no ways downing Rapid-Q as it was the reason for me programming as
Rapid-Q is so damn easy to use, and its creator William Yu is one hell of a
programmer for creating such a great software. And since he now works for
RealSoftware, I knew that RealBasic could only get better, for at least the
Windows coders out there.
Anyway thanks,
Jonathon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harrie Westphal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Getting Started" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: How to create the Copyright symbol?
On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Jonathon Bevar wrote:
I wish though RealSoftware created a Print Forms IDE as it would make
things so much more easier, and not to mention save a forest or two as
this one print out took me 250(125 double sided pages) sheets of paper
to get right. Oh, I reused the pages as when one side was printed, I
then flipped it over and used the back side for testing.
I have no idea what kind of report you are creating but usually when I
have some complex printout to create I will first use a window with
nothing but a canvas and use the canvas graphics object instead of the
printer graphics object until I have the layout of the report working
properly. At that point all I have to do is call the printing method
passing it the printer graphics instead of the canvas graphics object.
Plus, depending on the circumstances, I can then offer print preview
using the canvas and print to go to the printer.
I believe that you do most of your work in the Windows environment. Maybe
the next release of Windows will offer creating a PDF as a print option
the way that Mac OS X does. That can save a ton of paper when you don't
want to go the canvas route.
=== A Mac addict in Tennessee ===
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