garl@nlm-mcs.arpa (Gary Letourneau) (01/31/89)
I am looking for information on how to do the following 2 things in hypercard: 1. Print the contents of a scrolling text field to a printer. 2. Format columns of data contained in scrolling text fields into 'neat' columns. I would appreciate any leads. Gary Letourneau garl@mcs.nlm.nih.gov
stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT) (01/31/89)
In article <8881@nlm-mcs.arpa> garl@nlm-mcs.arpa (Gary Letourneau) writes: > >I am looking for information on how to do the following 2 things >in hypercard: > > 1. Print the contents of a scrolling text field to a printer. Get the Printfield XCMD from Dartmouth, it allows laser fonts, etc. > 2. Format columns of data contained in scrolling text fields into > 'neat' columns. > If you write your columns of data with a comma between items, then you can export your data to a tab delineated text file as follows: on myTabexport fname open file fname -- use XFCN filename for robustness repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines in field "data" repeat with j = 1 to the number of items in line i of field "data" write item j of line i of field "data" & tab to file fname end repeat write return to file fname end repeat close file fname end myTabexport This file could be opened by Excel and the data manipulated and printed, or by a word processor and printed. Hope this helps. andrew ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>|| || || || || Andrew Stone ?? 2 + 2 = 5; || || stone@hydra.unm.edu <> for sufficiently large 2 || || || || ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
swenson@isl.Stanford.EDU (Norman Swenson) (02/01/89)
In article <4316@charon.unm.edu> stone@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT) writes: >Get the Printfield XCMD from Dartmouth, it allows laser fonts, etc. > How can we get this (and other generally useful) XCMDs? What about public domain stacks? Are these posted somwhere? Norm swenson@isl.stanford.edu