How do you print?

Hannes Hirzel hirzel at spw.unizh.ch
Sat Mar 2 01:26:46 UTC 2002


On 1 Mar 2002, Jeff Bowman wrote:

> "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> writes: 
> 
> > 	I have text (no graphcs at the moment but there will be in the
> > 	future) to print which I can format as I like.  I need to be
> > 	able to create a button that says 'Print' the user can press and
> > 	get a report.
> > 	
> > OSProcess is being ported to the Windows environment, so a two-stage
> > process where you save the text (and later, graphics) as an HTML file
> > and then fire up Netscape to print it might work.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I've been thinking about doing something like this until I
> figured out the print thing.  Just for my edification, what is
> OSProcess and it's importance in the current discussion?

See OSProcess
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/708

>OSProcess Version 2.7 (January 6, 2002)
>OSProcess provides access to operating system functions, including pipes
>and child process creation. It is implemented using pluggable primitives
>in a loadable module for Linux and will probably work on most Unix
>systems. 

Dave Lewis is currently enhancing the Windows port.


Hannes Hirzel




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