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printing
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:21 pm
by guest
i have a graphic using a few "line" commands. how can i send that graphic to my printer
Re: printing
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:41 pm
by Z!re
guest wrote:i have a graphic using a few "line" commands. how can i send that graphic to my printer
You cant. This has already been answered, dont spam the board.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:36 pm
by Antoni
I would not say it can't be done...
The easiest way is to convert the graphics to a standard format (bmp, gif) in QB then open it with Windows paint to print it. You could use too a DOS screen capture program. Plasma has one of them in his site. It is not garanteeed to work in all screen modes.
Pure Dos was able fifteen years ago to dump a graphical screen to an IBM-Proprinter compatible printer if you loaded GRAPHICS.COM before. Unforunately no present printer supports the IBM-Proprinter command and GRAPHICS.COM does not work in the present DOS boxes inside Windows
If your printer is able to print text from DOS programs you could implement a graphics driver for it, provided you find the graphics command list for the printer. It would work only with your brand of printer...
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:39 pm
by Guest
i have no idea if this could even work, but how about displaying the graphics and putting Crtl+PrtScn into the keyboard buffer?
i can't log in-raybritton
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:31 pm
by Guest
Ray,
I posted this a week ago. Maybe it can help you.
..... regarding line drawing characters.
In WORD 2003 of Windws XP or WORD of Windows 2000, you can see line drawing characters by doing the following:
1) Print to a file with a different file extension, like .FIL
2) Get into WORD, and open the file.
3) Word presents a small window called "File Conversion". In this window, select "OEM United States" from the menu.
4) Word will now show your text with the proper line drawing characters.
5) You can now print this Word file.
Try it.
*****
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:32 pm
by {Nathan}
There had got to be some way to make the motherboard/OS think that the PrntScrn key was pressed.
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:34 pm
by moneo
Ray, the previous guest post was mine. Still having login problems.
*****
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 5:43 am
by RayBritton
moneo, i meant type print or clicking a button, for a program
BTW i wasn't the person who orignally posted
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 5:45 pm
by guest
thats a good idea how do you make the graphic a file in qbasic?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:02 pm
by Guest
Doesn't the LPRINT command send commands to the printer?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:32 pm
by moneo
guest wrote:thats a good idea how do you make the graphic a file in qbasic?
Oh, oh, I think I messed up, sorry. I was talking about printing out "line drawing characters", but you guys are talking about graphics on the screen produced by the line statement. Two totally different things.
The line statement outputs only to the screen. I have no idea how to get the contents of the screen onto a file, and whether that file could be printed properly. Years ago I did see some "screen capture" utilities, but don't know if they're still available.
*****Moneo*****
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:38 am
by Antoni
Try this screen grabber to get the screen to a file, then you can print it thru a
graphics editor
http://www.phatcode.net/downloads.php?id=194
LPRINT
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:24 pm
by Zim
Doesn't the LPRINT command send commands to the printer?
Lprint DOES send data to the printer, but only text such as the contents of string or numeric constants or expressions, like
He's trying to print graphics, which in the case of DOS is easy by pressing the PrtScrn key. In windows I thought this key just caused a screen capture which could be pasted (Ctrl+V) into any compliant app... no?
Re: LPRINT
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:44 pm
by Antoni
z!re wrote:
He's trying to print graphics, which in the case of DOS is easy by pressing the PrtScrn key. In windows I thought this key just caused a screen capture which could be pasted (Ctrl+V) into any compliant app... no?
In dos PrnScrn only worked if you loaded GRAPHICS.COM at the DOS start. The windows screen capture does not work in fullscreen modes.
Re: LPRINT
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:55 pm
by Z!re
Antoni wrote:z!re wrote:
He's trying to print graphics, which in the case of DOS is easy by pressing the PrtScrn key. In windows I thought this key just caused a screen capture which could be pasted (Ctrl+V) into any compliant app... no?
In dos PrnScrn only worked if you loaded GRAPHICS.COM at the DOS start. The windows screen capture does not work in fullscreen modes.
I never said that...
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:49 pm
by {Nathan}
That doesn't mean it isn't true.
Re: LPRINT
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:12 pm
by The Awakened
Antoni wrote:z!re wrote:
He's trying to print graphics, which in the case of DOS is easy by pressing the PrtScrn key. In windows I thought this key just caused a screen capture which could be pasted (Ctrl+V) into any compliant app... no?
In dos PrnScrn only worked if you loaded GRAPHICS.COM at the DOS start. The windows screen capture does not work in fullscreen modes.
It works for me. I just hit the Print Screen button, go into Paint, Edit --> Paste, and pow, it's there.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:00 am
by The Walrus
It's only in NT based Windows versions you can't use Print Screen in fullscreen modes.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:24 am
by Z!re
The Walrus wrote:It's only in NT based Windows versions you can't use Print Screen in fullscreen modes.
Just tried, I can take a screenshot of the QB IDE in fullscreen mode..
Windows 2000 Professional
Re: PrtScrn
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:02 pm
by Zim
Antoni wrote:
In dos PrnScrn only worked if you loaded GRAPHICS.COM at the DOS start...
In the VERY old days of DOS, PrtScrn worked without GRAPHICS.COM loaded, but that was back when CGA was the highest resolution (640x200). As QuickBASIC began to support higher resolutions, such as EGA (640x350) you needed to have GRAPHICS.COM loaded. That was a boon to us back then. We could actually print an EGA screen with just the press of a button! Imagine!