open printing with dialog -- Windows equiv?

Frank D. Engel, Jr. fde101 at fjrhome.net
Tue Nov 23 12:59:40 EST 2004


On Nov 23, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> The thing with formatForPrinting is that you shouldn't
> change the content of the stack after setting this
> property to true, or the formatting will be off.
> So the best option is to set the data,; next you set
> formatForPrinting false and then back to true ; next
> you save the stack, close and reopen it ; and then
> print it.

Except that I'm doing this with a stack which will need to run as a 
standalone and don't want to save the stack out to a separate file when 
printing (and parts of the layout may change rather significantly 
between printouts).  I see this as quite a limitation.  Any way for 
the formatting to be adjusted w/o saving and reloading the stack?

I do something similar to what I'm attempting with other types of 
printouts and don't seem to have a problem.  Of course, most of those 
are not paragraph-level formatted...

> As for your 'preparing' stack not showing up : is it
> possible you're running that part of the script inside
> a lock/unlock screen pair ?

No, and in fact, I even stuck a stray "unlock screen" between the two 
"open stack" commands to check for exactly that.  No effect.

>
> Jan Schenkel.
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$



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