Ok, before I start beating my head against the file cabinet again this year
because printing in Director is such a pain. I used POM on the last project
I needed printing, but it seemed like I was constantly running around in
circles trying to figure out the POM coordinet system. Let me explain what
I need to do. I need to take 8.5 x 11 forms, display them on-screen, have
text fields that can be filled in by the user, and then print the form and
the text fields out. The way I went about this last time was to simply have
a reduced version of the form on-screen. Then with POM call the 8.5 x 11
version of the form, take the text from the text fields increase its size
and position it with the larger version and finally get my print out. I
think I already know that there is no better solution than POM, since yes
this does need to be cross-platform. I don't think to this point I have
asked a question, but rather just complained... so can anyone offer up some
advise on POM coordinet system, or maybe recommend a good pain killer cause
my head hurts. I've read the POM help file on the coordinet system, but I
am still having problems.
-- a clip of the code... I removed most of the text field positionings as to
not bore you with those
on mouseUp
cursor 4
sprite(150).visible = true
updatestage
set doc = new(xtra "PrintOMatic")
doc.setDocumentName("Cause")
doc.newpage()
if the machinetype = 256 then
importfileinto member("printable"), "@\prints\AH_causeandeffect.jpg"
settextfont doc, "Arial"
else
importfileinto member("printable"), ":prints:AH_causeandeffect.jpg"
settextfont doc, "Helvetica"
end if
printme = "AH_causeandeffect"
drawPicture doc, member(printme), Rect(-42,-38,680,684)
settextsize doc, 11
doc.drawText(member("name").text, point(383,-27))
doc.drawText(member("date").text, point(383,-8))
doc.drawText(member("other").text, point(359,9))
-- doc.printpreview()
if dojobsetup(doc) then print doc
doc = 0
cursor 0
sprite(150).visible = false
updatestage
member(printme).name = "printable"
member("printable").media = member("printable_blank").media
end
-- end clip
Heres what I don't understand -- drawPicture doc, member(printme),
Rect(-42,-38,680,684) -- why is it that the rect has negative numbers?
Shouldn't the top left be (0,0)? I dunno...
Sorry for the outburst, and the spelling, but thank you for any help
John
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