[Newbies] printing graphics in squeak

[Ching de la Serna]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the info. Squeak can be intimidating with its wealth of
capabilities if you don't know where to look. I will sure be busy checking
out your suggestions.

Ching

On 9/18/07, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ching.
>
> Morphs draw themselves on Canvases - look at the Canvas class. Typically,
> these would be FormCanvas which draws to the screen. I think there is a
> Postscript-capable Canvas subclass. I'm not sure what it's called
> ("PostscriptCanvas"?). Google for Ghostscript for info on how to print
> postscript files if you don't have a postscript-capable printer (or if you
> aren't running Linux).
>
> Also try reverse-engineering the print command in the... menus? This will
> be a good exercise for you. Find the "print" command in a menu somewhere in
> squeak (probably in a halo menu for a Morph?), and open the halo on the menu
> itself, select "explore" or "inspect" and poke around to see if you can find
> where the code for the print command is.
>
> Sorry I can't give you specifics; I don't have squeak available right now.
>
> Michael.
>
> On 9/18/07, Ching de la Serna < ching.dls at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks David, I think I need to look at Morphs a little more closely for
> > what I need to do which is to create some graphics (shapes, etc.) and send
> > them to a printer.
> >
> > Ching
> >
> > On 9/18/07, David Mitchell <david.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you mean charts and graphs? If so, check out PlotMorph.
> > >
> > > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2626
> > >
> > > On 9/17/07, Ching de la Serna < ching.dls at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to print graphics in Squeak. What classes do I need to
> > > do this?
> > > > Many thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Ching
> > > >
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