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

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