Print with dialog?
Jan Schenkel
janschenkel at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 10 17:49:13 EDT 2003
--- Mark Swindell <mswindel at santacruz.k12.ca.us>
wrote:
> I'm having trouble making a card print correctly.
> If I just use the print
> card command, the margins are wrong.
>
> Using the following, I don't get the print dialog
> that allows me to select
> number of copies... it just spits out a single copy,
> although the margins
> are right. (Actually it DID show the print dialog
> twice out of about 10
> attempts... huh?)
>
> on mouseup
> revShowPrintDialog false,true
> print card into 36,36,550,610
> end mouseup
>
>
> I just want to be able to access the print dialog on
> Mac OS, OSX and Windows
> and print to the above rect. What must I do? Not
> having luck with the docs
> in this area.
>
> I'm doing this on OS9.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
Hi Mark,
The thing here is that 'revShowPrintDialog' only has
an effect in conjunction with the 'revPrintField' and
'revPrintText' printing commands.
In this case, I think you're looking for :
- answer printer
- open printing with dialog
Hope this helped,
Jan Schenkel
=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld)
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