willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) (08/28/89)
I am just starting out in the world of HyperCard authoring. As my first exercise (a learning experience) I am playing with a "name, address, and interests" stack, a modification of one of the samples that comes with HyperCard. Things are mostly pretty straightforward, but there is one thing that I haven't figured out how to do. I would like to be able to print a report for selected cards; for example all cards that contain "windsurfing" as an interest. I know how to use open printing [with dialog] print <whichever card(s)> close printing but that prints out images of cards, which isn't what I want. I want to print in the format produced by "Print Report", but only for selected cards. I suppose my script could create a new stack with only the desired cards, and then "Print Report" from there, but that seems like a sledge-hammer appproach. I keep thinking I must be missing something obvious. Any suggestions or pointers would be appreciated. If people mail directly to me rather than posting, I would be happy to summarize. -- David A. Willcox Motorola, Urbana Design Center UUCP: ...!uiucuxc!udc!willcox 1101 E. University Ave. INET: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com Urbana, IL 61801 FONE: 217-384-8534
fwb@demon.siemens.com (Frederic W. Brehm) (08/30/89)
willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes: >Things are mostly pretty straightforward, but there is one thing that >I haven't figured out how to do. I would like to be able to print a >report for selected cards; for example all cards that contain >"windsurfing" as an interest. Here is an outline of what to do (details are left as an exercise for the reader :-) 1) Generate a file name and put it into a global variable file_name. I have found that it should have a full path name (printing with an application does not seem to work properly otherwise). 2) Execute the command open file file_name 3) Search for your selection criteria. When you have it, do on haveCardToPrint global file_name write return & field "Name and Address" & return to file file_name -- or whatever you want to write end someEvent 4) When you are all done, then on printReport global file_name close file file_name answer "Print " & quote & file_name & quote & "?" \ with "Cancel" or "Edit" or "Print" if it is "Print" then print file_name with "TeachText" else if it is "Edit" then open file_name with "TeachText" end if end printList I hope this helps. Fred -- Frederic W. Brehm Siemens Corporate Research Princeton, NJ fwb@demon.siemens.com -or- princeton!siemens!demon!fwb
dlugose@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose) (09/01/89)
In article <980@urbana.mcd.mot.com> willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes: >I haven't figured out how to do. I would like to be able to print a >report for selected cards; for example all cards that contain >"windsurfing" as an interest. I know how to use When I want to print information from selected cards, I take ad of the fact that "print report" skips cards if fields are chosen that are blank. I have a script find all the cards that fit my criteria and put the info I want into a field which would otherwise be blank. Dan Dlugose UNC Educational Computing Service