Is there a way to shorten this script? (100 graphics and 200 lines of text)

[Thomas McGrath III]

To print using AirPrint you can use the rreHardCopy external from Livecode which is included with you external examples:

Together with a script like this:

on AirPrint
    if not rreHardcopyIsAvailable() then
         answer "Printing is not available at this time." titled "Printing Error"
         exit to top
    end if
   put the short name of this card into tPrintJob
   export snapshot from rect (the rect of graphic "PrintArea") of this card to tPNG as PNG
   put tPNG into URL ("file:" & specialFolderPath("documents") & "/" & tPrintJob & ".png") --if you want to store it as well
  
   put (specialFolderPath("Documents") & "/" & tPrintJob & ".png") into tPDFFile
    rreHardcopyPrintPDF tPDFFile, tPrintJob

    if the result = "printing cancelled" then
         exit to top
    end if
end AirPrint

-- Tom McGrath III
http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
3mcgrath at comcast.net

On May 8, 2012, at 2:57 PM, William de Smet wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the contribution!
> 
> I first tried Mark Schonewille's script and that one works immediately.
> My app is almost finished now.
> Now searching the forum for a way to use AirPrint (but that one seems
> sort of impossible at the moment).
> 
> greetings,
> 
> William
> 
> 
> 2012/5/8 Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com>:
>> Whoops.  Still not right.  The line number has to go up twice as fast as the object number.
>> 
>> This can be done with a separate loop variable or doing some math on the repeat loop variable.
>> 
>> It might be easiest to count graphic objects and then calculate the lines as (2*i-1) and (2*i)
>> 
>> Dar
>> 
>> On May 8, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote:
>> 
>>> repeat with i = 1 to 200 step 2
>>>  put "d"&i into tObjectName
>>>  set the backgroundcolor of grc tObjectName to the text of line i of fld "in"
>>>  set the foregroundcolor of grc tObjectName to the text of line i+1 of fld "in"
>>> end repeat
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5/8/2012 2:32 PM, John Dixon wrote:
>>>> repeat with i = 1 to 200 step 2
>>>>>  set the backgroundcolor of grc "d1" to the text of line i of fld "in"
>>>>>  set the foregroundcolor of grc "d1" to the text of line i+1 of fld "in"
>>>>> end repeat
>>> 
>>> --
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>> 
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