Hershel Fisch wrote:
On 12/5/05 7:17 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Styles"? What do you want to do?
Meaning, color or gray scale on color printers, print quality on inkjets;
best, normal or draft, orientation; portrait or landscape and so on.
Selecting a printer goes along because checks go to the metallic printer and
other things go elsewhere, ok.
I never saw in Quick Books or in M.Y.O.B. Or any other off shelf application
the necessity for these settings selections.
QuickBooks is a special case: Intuit spent three years studying
printing before releasing v1.0, and have taken out a few patents on what
they put in.
I haven't used M.Y.O.B. in years, but recall it being a good program.
But I'm surprised neither of these has ever asked you to tell them what
printing you're using.
In OS X, Mac Classic, and Windows, it's common to define the parameters
for the print job in the Print window, with some settings defined in
Page Setup. Rev gives you access to both:
answer printer -- brings up the OS standard Page Setup dialog,
which retains settings during the current session
open printing with dialog -- initiates a print job with the Print
Job dialog presented first. You can also print
without the Print Job dialog by ommitting "with
dialog".
If you filter the Transcript Dictionary with "print" you'll find a lot
of properties which govern printing. You can set these up without ever
showing the Page Setup dialog, including margins, orientation, scale,
and more.
The one weakness Rev has is integrating its internal settings with the
OS print dialogs. It would be nice to be able to save and restore Page
Setup info as we can with QuickTime transitions using "answer effect".
The difficulty is that while there's only one QuickTime API, the APIs
for printing vary broadly and deeply from OS to OS. This isn't to say
it wouldn't be worth pursuing (hence the Bugzilla request for it), but
at least it helps you understand why that's not in place just yet.
Once Classic support is dropped from the engine (no, I've heard of no
plans, just wishful thinking for the future), printing can be greatly
enhanced as OS X's printing architecture is more like the rest of the
world and Classic's is from outerspace.
In the meantime, can the built-in properties cover what you need? And
if not, is it really a deal-breaker to present the Print Job dialog as
most apps do by default?
I don't use either QuickBooks or MYOB, but I don't think I have an app
on my drive that doesn't bring up the Print Job dialog when I print, and
for specialized printing (like checks, labels, etc.) it's usually
necessary for me to set the page orientation in Page Setup. Maybe
QuickBooks and MYOB are just way ahead of the pack on those (well, we
know QuickBooks is).
Or if wanted to add a timer constant running from when the application is
launched.
Timers work well. You might givem 'em a try.
What do you want to do?
Maybe I don't know how to use it, but for what I need it I don¹t see a way
it should work. E.g. My app. Gets turned off probably ... I don't know when,
very seldom.
They are many meetings appointments, schedules that are entered and the
system has to pop em out as the time goes whithout button pressing and at
the same time that same app. Is being used heavy for other things memo's,
invoicing,inventory and so on. My whole business runes on that one
application. I thought to use separate stand alones for certain tasks but
wouldn't do the trick.
I'm big enough to admit if I'm wrong but it has to be proven to me first.
Thanks, Hershel Fisch
It's not about right or wrong, just about solving problems. To help you
with this one I'm afraid I'll need a little more background:
When you write "E.g. My app. Gets turned off probably", do you mean it
quits unexpectedly or that the user would turn it off.
If the latter, you can query "the pending messages" to determine which
messages are in queue, and save those to a file on exit. When the app
starts up again it could load them from that file and put them back into
the queue.
Does that help? Or do I not understand fully?
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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