On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Przemysław Czerpak wrote:
> > >      QUESTION: TextOut() method uses 4-th parameter to control text
> > >                alignment but it uses own constant values:
> > >                  0 == left, 1 == right, 2 == centered
> > >                instead of TA_* constants. Should we keep it or rather
> > >                use windows constant values adding also support for 
> > > vertical
> > >                alignment? In current xHarbour code this parameter was 
> > > changed
> > >                to accept windows constants and 5-th parameter was added 
> > > which
> > >                is OR-ed with the 4-th one but for me this part is 
> > > redundant.
> > I vote for Windows constants (already in hbwin.ch) and 
> > only one parameter. Easy to add/or them, no need for two.
> Thank you, I'll update the code.

Done.
I have yet another question about one modification implemented in xHarbour.
It supports yet:
   :AskProperties
which allow to activate DocumentProperties dialog from :Create() method
so user can make interactively his own settings. Below is xHarbour
ChangeLog entry which introduced this feature.
Question to windows users:
   Do you think it's valuable extension? Should we add it too?

xHarbour also supports TextOutW() and TextOutWAt() methods but I do not
want to implement them because they use HVM string items directly casted
to windows wide char strings. For me it's rather a workaround for missing
direct support for compilation with UNICODE macro and automatic HVM CP
translation then final solution. Additionally we will have to remove it
when we add support for UNICODE string items to HVM. Please note that
when Harbour ms-windows build is compiled with UNICODE macro then all
strings passed from user code are automatically translated to unicode
values using current HVM codepage what effectively resolves encoding
problems when user wants to print text encoded in the same CP as used
by HVM.
Anyhow if someone really needs above methods now then we can add WIN32PRN
class to XHB library which will inherit from WIN_PRN and here we can
implement them.

best regards,
Przemek


2007-11-10 23:30 UTC+0700 Budyanto Dj. <[email protected]>
  * source/rtl/win32prn.prg
    % Added ::AskProperties
      If it is assigned .t. prior to calling ::Create(), a DocumentProperties 
dialog will be displayed.
      Example:
      oPrinter:= Win32Prn():New(cPrinter)
      oPrinter:Landscape:= .t.
      oPrinter:AskProperties := .t.
      IF !oPrinter:Create()
         ...
      NOTES:
      For unknown reasons, Windows98/ME returns IDCANCEL if user clicks OK 
without changing anything in DocumentProperties.
      Therefore, we ignore the return value in Win9x, and assume user clicks OK.
      IOW, DocumentProperties is not cancelable in Win9X.
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