Thanks to everyone for their help and especially Thierry - your solution was exactly what I needed and I now have printing working on both PC and Mac.
It seems that the "formatForPrinting" command was the one that caused all text on my application to vanish under Windows. Now that I've removed it, everything works fine. Thanks again, Karen On 15/3/05 11:28 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Message: 12 > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:07:21 +0100 > From: thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re[2]: More Printing Questions > To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi, > > i've just finished to make the printing of a field working on Windows... > quite a lot of struggles too :-( > > Anyway, you could find below the script. What is interesting is the lasts > parameters of the revPrintText ( found in the Doc ). In the second line, i've > put in comments what was really coorupting my stack... they talk about it in > the print > doc too, but i didn't understand very well, but without it works. > > the fields "TemplateBody" and "TemplateHF" are used respectively to manage > the > style of the field to print and the Header and Footer. > The textstyle can then be changed with the Property inspector. > > I have no idea if this is the best way to print the content of a field :-) > > the tests was made with Rev2.1 and the trial version of Rev2.5.1 > on a Win98 and W2k. > > Otherwise, during development time, i needed to restart Revolution whenever > my > code was not printing properly !!! > > Hope this help, > Regards, thierry > > case "Print report" > -- NEVER ! set the formatForPrinting of this stack to true > set the printMargins to 25,20,10,10 > revShowPrintDialog true, true > revPrintText the Text of field "BioArchimedScript" of cd "Script" , \ > "<%the long date%>" &tab&tab& the cProject of this stack &cr, \ > "BioArchimed Version 2.1" &tab&tab& "<%PageNumber%>/<%NumPages%>", \ > the long name of field "TemplateBody" of cd "Script", \ > the long name of field "TemplateHF" of cd "Script", \ > the long name of field "TemplateHF" of cd "Script" > break _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
