Printing in Windows

[Sarah Reichelt]

> > How is printing in Windows supposed to work? In Mac,
> > I go to "Page
> > setup" and choose the paper layout I want. Then when
> > I print, I get
> > another dialog allowing me to choose copies, page
> > ranges, quality etc.
> > Rev ignores the page ranges :-( but apart from that,
> > printing works as
> > I would expect.
> >
> > With Windows, when I use "answer printer" which I do
> > when "Page setup"
> > is chosen from the menu, I get a dialog allowing me
> > to choose the
> > printer and it's settings, but it also has a Print
> > button. rather to
> > my surprise, this seems to work, even though I
> > haven't scripted for it
> > at all. However choosing "Print" from the menu gives
> > me no dialog at
> > all, it just prints to the default printer, no
> > matter what I chose in
> > "Page setup".
> >
> > So what do Windows users expect? Is this correct
> > behaviour? Or should
> > I forget "Page setup" for Windows and just use the
> > "answer printer"
> > dialog for printing in a single step?
> >
> > Please help a confused Mac person...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sarah
> >
>
> Hi Sarah,
>
> Printing on Windows is a tad confusing in Revolution.
> The 'answer printer' command displays the Page Setup
> dialog box on MacOS, but on Windows it looks like the
> place to print from.
> And the other fun thing is that you can't actually
> read and store the page setup data, so you have to ask
> the user every time.
> On Windows, users either never get the printer
> selection screen, or they get it every time.
>

Thanks Jan, here's what i came up with:

    if the platform = "MacOS" then
        revShowPrintDialog false, true
    else
        revShowPrintDialog true, false
    end if
    revPrintText .....

I'm not sure this is ideal, but at least it gives a print dialog for
both platforms.

And Graham, BZ16169 already has my votes.

Cheers,
Sarah