[Newbies] How do I print?

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 04:58:50 UTC 2015


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On 8/24/15, Kirk Fraser <overcomer.man at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Not sure what you mean by trunk.  I assumed it was the first download on
> squeak.org but it seems a lot harder to extract than Squeak 4.5 was.
> Anyway it did not work any better on the menu print.
>
> Kirk
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I just committed a fix for this in Squeak trunk. I don't have a Windows
>> machine to test it with, but if you are able to update to the latest
>> Squeak trunk, please give it a try and let me know it it works for you.
>> Note that this is rather old code with platform dependencies, so I really
>> cannot say if it is going to work.
>>
>> The underlying problem was that the editor hierarchy had been refactored
>> for Morphic a few years ago, and this particular feature was overlooked.
>> I added the missing implementation.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 05:32:27PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:
>> > David,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the tip to create a file and print with external tools.  I
>> need
>> > to write a program to extract PO Boxes from a county voter list to send
>> out
>> > post cards inviting each voter to sign my petition in a central
>> > location
>> at
>> > one minute intervals to reduce the crowds. One of them will be to term
>> > limit the local mayor.  So I thought to generate the cards one at a
>> > time
>> > but your way can work.
>> > Kirk
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:25 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 08:20:13PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> > > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 04:43:12PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:
>> > > > > Several different things are polymorphically called print.  How
>> > > > > do
>> I
>> > > send
>> > > > > text to a peripheral printer?  I found the menu item "Send
>> contents to
>> > > > > printer" and it produced walkback which says
>> > > > > "MessageNotUnderstood: SmalltalkEditor>sendContentsToPrinter".
>> Printer
>> > > > > setup similarly failed yet after the OS supplied the customary
>> sound
>> > > that
>> > > > > the printer was hooked up.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > This occurred in Squeak 4.5 under Windows 7.  What would solve
>> > > > > the
>> > > problem
>> > > > > best?  Upgrading Squeak?  Getting a different printer? Going back
>> to
>> > > > > Digitalk Smalltalk/V and a dot matrix ribbon printer where it did
>> work
>> > > > > years ago?
>> > > >
>> > > > Hi Kirk,
>> > > >
>> > > > That MessageNotUnderstood is a bug for sure. I'm surprised nobody
>> spotted
>> > > > the MNU until now; I suspect that it has been broken for quite a
>> while.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm afraid that this is negected functionality. As a workaround,
>> there
>> > > are
>> > > > various ways to export to files which can then be printed. The
>> contents
>> > > of
>> > > > a workspace can be exported to a text file, and any morph can
>> exported in
>> > > > various ways (included postscript) by means of the tools button in
>> morph
>> > > > halo menus (yellow click on any morph).
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Sorry, I guess that would be the blue button (not yellow) that brings
>> up
>> > > the morph halos.
>> > >
>> > > Dave
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