jmoore@pc.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Moore) (08/16/88)
Needed some input about Screen Dump Program.
Recently I developed a program that would generate some
charts on a screen based upon some data. I decided to try and
print the information but found out that I could not do a screen
dump to my printer when running under Turbo-C. Since I also
own Turbo Pascal with all of the libraries I wrote a small
program that would dump the graphics screen using the function
"HardCopy" provided with the graphics tool box. In order to get
this to work I had to use an external call to another program
from Turbo-C. I did not like this solution so I decided to
write my own routines to do this.
I have just finished writing a version of a routine to allow
a person to print graphics screen dumps under TC and TP. I am
still working on this to make it usable from all of the supported
devices by Borland. I am presently looking at some ways to speed
this up and I am also looking at adding the option to allow saving
to disk for printing later. I have never heard anyone complain
about NOT being able to this but am sure there are people that
would like to be able to do this. Is there any interest in this ?
I am debating how much more to develop it. Presently it is a
function that is called from the source code level. I would like to
make a TSR also to allow screen dumping, saving and retreival from
other programs.
Any suggestions on what this routine should be able to do ?
I am thinking about making this a library function that one can link
into for both TC and TP.
I would eventualy like to put this out in shareware for
a small charge ($5-10). Any and All suggestions would be
appreciated.
Jim Moore
jmoore@cimlab.ecn.purdue.edu