palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (09/13/90)
How do I print a card field? Preferably with a button. I have a Hypercard stack that I use to read mail. Each mail message has it's own card. I would like to have a button named "Print Message" to print the current message. It is in a card field. adv<thanks>ance
gt0831c@prism.gatech.EDU (William Moss) (09/14/90)
While I know of no easy way to do this in standard (pre 2.0) Hypercard, the Dartmouth XCMD's version 3.1 have two VERY good XCMDs for printing card fields. PrintField (by Kevin Calhoun) prints the text of a field in its current font, size, style, height and width. Further information about page margins and whether to invoke the standard print dialogs can also be specified (margins on this XCMD are in points). TextStream (also by Kevin Calhoun) prints groups of containers (variables, fields, scripts, etc.) in the printer's default font. It has a provision to set margins (but unlike PrintField these margins are in terms of characters and lines). There is no way to force the dialog boxes to appear. Both XCMD's work on the Laserwriter and Imagewriter. The Dartmouth XCMD's verison 3.1 stack is available via anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu as freeware. Does anyone know whether these XCMDs work with Hypercard 2.0 William Moss
bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) (09/14/90)
In article <2303@linac.fnal.gov> palkovic@linac.fnal.gov writes: |How do I print a card field? Preferably with a button. I have a |Hypercard stack that I use to read mail. Each mail message has it's |own card. I would like to have a button named "Print Message" to print |the current message. It is in a card field. In HC 1.2.5: on PrintMessage fieldlongname -- first write the field to a file open file "tempfoo" write fieldlongname to "tempfoo" close file "tempfoo" --now use another application to print the file print "tempfoo" with "teachtext" end PrintMessage in HC 2.0: on PrintMessage fieldlongname open printing -- choose one of the following two lines: print fieldlongname -- with formatting intact print (fieldlongname) -- with no formatting close printing end PrintMessage pretty neat, eh? bill coderre private consultant for hire
jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) (09/14/90)
Yes, PrintField and TextStream work with HyperCard 2.0. I tested them myself. - Guess Who