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Sending screen graphics to printer

Intel_C_Intel — Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:30:54 GMT

My co-worker Dan Porga wrote a QuickWin program, but to print, we press CTRL-PrintScreen, Paste the clipboard into MS PhotoEditor and then print the resulting BMP.

Although this works fine, it's tedious. Is there code that will automate this for us? Ideally, we'd like to click on a "Print" button and have the screen sent to the printer, without having to fool with the clipboard and PhotoEditor.

TIA.

Re: Sending screen graphics to printer

Steven_L_Intel1 — Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:40:00 GMT

Um, what about the File..Print menu item in the QuickWin window? I think you can also use CLICKMENUQQ with the WINPRINT function code to have this under program control.

Steve

Re: Sending screen graphics to printer

Intel_C_Intel — Wed, 02 May 2001 21:01:01 GMT

Steve,

I have tried your suggestion for putting printing from QuickWin under program control without success. The problem is that in the call:

result = CLICKMENUQQ (item)

Item may only have the values 1 to 4 as given in DFLIB.F90

? QWIN$STATUS - Status command item = 1
? QWIN$TILE - Tile command item = 2
? QWIN$CASCADE - Cascade command item = 3
? QWIN$ARRANGE - Arrange Icons command item = 4

I have tried to fool it by shifting the position of items in the menu, but it is not deceived. Other values of item cause access violations.

Any ideas, or is another routine akin to Fortran_WinPrint needed?

Re: Sending screen graphics to printer

Steven_L_Intel1 — Thu, 03 May 2001 00:58:16 GMT

Use CLICKMENUQQ(LOC(WINPRINT)) - sorry for missing that detail. I know it's not documented, but it works.

Steve

Re: Sending screen graphics to printer

Intel_C_Intel — Tue, 08 May 2001 14:36:32 GMT

Steve,

It now works perfectly - many thanks!