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?
Kirk
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).
Dave
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
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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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@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 _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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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@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@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 _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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Did you go for this
http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/target/...
?
On 8/24/15, Kirk Fraser overcomer.man@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@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@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 _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Kirk Fraser overcomer.man@gmail.com 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?
Kirk
Hi Kirk, You can fix this by copying the following into the SmalltalkEditor class.
sendContentsToPrinter | textToPrint printer parentWindow | textToPrint := paragraph text. textToPrint size = 0 ifTrue: [^self inform: 'nothing to print.']. printer := TextPrinter defaultTextPrinter. parentWindow := self model dependents detect: [:dep | dep isSystemWindow] ifNone: [nil]. parentWindow isNil ifTrue: [printer documentTitle: 'Untitled'] ifFalse: [printer documentTitle: parentWindow label]. printer printText: textToPrint
this will send the contents of an editor pane to the connected (default) printer. If you need to change the printer, you can go to the outside top left icon (mouse), choose VM Preferences->System Preferences->Printer Configuration.
The above message also shows how to programmatically interface with the printer.
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