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@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.
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