Great job Peter! This is a great example of how extensible LiveCode is. With 
Hypercard we were at the mercy of xcmd's, and they were not always well written 
or even compatible with each other. Being able to "shell out" or access 
compiled externals makes LiveCode an excellent front end dev tool, even for 
people who primarily develop in another high level programming language. 

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Bob


On Oct 28, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote:

> In case anyone else would find it useful, I've finally managed to tune up my 
> handlers for LiveCode printing from a Mac laptop, designed to avoid any 
> unnecessary printing dialogs. This is useful if you, like me, use a LiveCode 
> app on your laptop in a number of different venues and need to print using 
> the currently connected printer. I got annoyed that every time I switched 
> venues I had to tell the system what printer to use (I do a lot of printing 
> of patient notes, prescriptions, etc.). The system knows what's connected, 
> right? So if I have one and only one printer connected why should it have to 
> ask me to choose my printer?
> 
> The set of handlers below will detect the currently available printer, 
> whether connected by USB or on a wireless network, and automatically send the 
> print job to that printer (if I'm printing from a LiveCode script).
> <snip>

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