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Re: Printing & FunO

Well, I wasn't even really hoping for a full-fledged report generator.  All I was
trying to do was to print something nicely formatted (bold face text, etc.) from
Dylan.  I'd rather not use Active X.  If that was what I wanted, I already know
how.  What I wanted was some way to do it from Dylan.  If it's possible, I don't
know which modules I need.

I already have routines (well, not in Dylan, but that's secondary) that could
produce the HTML of what I want to print.  It's the printing itself that causes
grief.  This is especially true as I really want to have as little OS dependent
code as possible.  Something that would like to gtk or wxWindows would be my
preference (perhaps drawing an image on an offscreen bit-map, and then dumping it
to the print device, where only the actual act of "dumping it to the print device"
would be OS dependent).

Rob Myers wrote:

> He's after a report generator or RTF control equivalent, something you
> can build forms in to print out mailmerged or DB-queried stuff prettily.
>
> If Fun-Dev doesn't have this (I'm sure it handles printing), it's easy
> to call an ActiveX/COM component from Fun-Dev, so you can use one of the
> zillions already in existance on Windows.
>
> - Rob.
>
> Jason Trenouth wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:45:01 -0400 (EDT), Charles Hixson
> > <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > What is needed to produce "nicely formatted reports"
> > > in Dylan?
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what you are refering to, but possibly it is a feature of
> > the IDE whereby it can export information like library/module summaries, or
> > application bug reports, in text or HTML.
> >
> > __Jason
>
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