pyr440@psc90.UUCP (Computer Junky) (08/02/89)
I am currently working on a Graphics program in Turbo Pascal 5.0 and need some help. How do I print out graphs that are displayed on the screen? I Have tried the usual, SHFT-PtrScr Put the printer just form feeds. I am currently using a brother m-1724L for a printer. I also tried graphics.com but no sucess. oh Yes I am using an AST - IBM AT Compatible computer. Please post reply or send email to pyr440@psc90 or !uunet!unh!psc90!pyr440 Thanks is advance TM
leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (08/08/89)
pyr440@psc90.UUCP (Computer Junky) writes:
<I am currently working on a Graphics program in Turbo Pascal 5.0 and need some
<help. How do I print out graphs that are displayed on the screen?
<I Have tried the usual, SHFT-PtrScr Put the printer just form feeds.
<I am currently using a brother m-1724L for a printer. I also tried graphics.com
<but no sucess. oh Yes I am using an AST - IBM AT Compatible computer.
Unless you are running DOS 4.0, graphics.com only works for printing CGA
screens. If you are using DOS 4.0, you can print CGA, EGA, and VGA
screens, but I don't you can print Hercules screens (IBM still won't
admit it exists!)
In general, you are going to have to write your own screen dump routine.
Or look around for a screen print program.
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Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Shortpfunke@qa1.pica.army.mil (08/11/89)
another solution to dumping the graphics is to have your program load one of the PD TSR drivers that will do a correct dump of the screen. In some of my software that I write for automatic test equipment, I had to print an EGA screen on an epson printer. I have my program load a Public Domain TSR called EPSON.COM. This replaces the old Interupt 5 handler with one that handles the EGA graphics. Then when my program wishes to print the graph that is on the screen it need only call Int 5 to print it. I am using this program with TP 5.0 on a Zenith 248 (AT-Clone). Eric Pfunke PA&TD AMCCOM, US ARMY
abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura) (08/18/89)
In article <20573@adm.BRL.MIL> pfunke@qa1.pica.army.mil writes:
]another solution to dumping the graphics is to have your program load one of
]the PD TSR drivers that will do a correct dump of the screen. In some of
]my software that I write for automatic test equipment, I had to print an
]EGA screen on an epson printer. I have my program load a Public Domain
]TSR called EPSON.COM. This replaces the old Interupt 5 handler with one that
]handles the EGA graphics. Then when my program wishes to print the graph that
]is on the screen it need only call Int 5 to print it. I am using this program
]with TP 5.0 on a Zenith 248 (AT-Clone).
]
]Eric Pfunke
]PA&TD
]AMCCOM, US ARMY
This might not be a good idea (loading a TSR within a program), as this
would fragment your memory. You would probably be better off running a
batch file that loads the TSR, then executes your program.
I've run into a similar situation where some peolple loaded the
GRAPHICS.COM graphics screen dump TSR from within the Turbo Pascal IDE
(which takes up around half of the available memory). They couldn't run
a program that worked just a few seconds before (they loaded the
GRAPHICS.COM TSR) because of insufficient memory. They would then exit
out of the IDE, then try to reenter it, but couldn't because there
wasn't enough memory.
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