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Re: [Dev-C++] Printing

[Michael C. <jd...@ho...>]

Hi,

I have little to no experience in windows programming so I searched the web 
and found a Borlands site that has an example of how it does it.

  url: 
http://www.totse.com/en/computers/c_cplusplus_programming_how_to/iostream.html

Hope this helps,

Michael




>From: "Ian Weston" <lak...@ho...>
>Reply-To: dev...@li...
>To: dev...@li...
>Subject: [Dev-C++] Printing
>Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:20:01 +0000
>
>hello everyone. im writing a program in c++ and i need to be able to print
>out text to a printer. i was just wondering if anyone knows how to do this.
>
>thankyou. ian.
>
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[Dev-C++] RE: Printing

[CARLSON, J. M. <CA...@st...>]

After doing many hours of web surfing.  I found the best option for printing
(from a console) is to write everything to a file, then open the file under
notepad, or wordpad and print from there.  I guess the reason is GUI's are
so popular (ie Windows), printers need drivers and most are only supplied
with window drivers now, (and linux if your lucky!)   It may be possible to
redirect the entire file output to the printer from dos using something like
"c:\filename.exe >> lpt1" or something like that.  If anyone has the exact
details that would be great.  I also found some information on using inp
outp or inport outport for communicating through various ports.  In this way
the printer might be fed some data.  But there are just too many unknowns
for me to take a stab at.

Jay

RE: [Dev-C++] RE: Printing

[Abhijit S. <mu...@gm...>]

> It may be possible to
> redirect the entire file output to the printer from dos using something
like
> "c:\filename.exe >> lpt1" or something like that.

Actually, that's `prn' in DOS. You can print directly by opening a file
using prn as the name. For example:

ofstream prn("prn");
if(!prn)
{
	clog << "Printer not found" << endl;
}
else
{
	// Print
	prn.close();
}

Or in C, use fopen(), fprintf(), etc.
HTH.
________________________________________

Abhijit Shylanath
http://mudeth.tripod.com/

Re: [Dev-C++] RE: Printing

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

It is possible to open lpt1 or prn as a file also.

However, depending on what os, driver, printer you have, you might
have to fiddle iin the printer settings to make sure that the printer is
avavailable in console windows too. Some combinations of OS and printer
drivers might not even support text output from a console.

/Per W

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, CARLSON, JAY  MM1 wrote:

> After doing many hours of web surfing.  I found the best option for printing
> (from a console) is to write everything to a file, then open the file under
> notepad, or wordpad and print from there.  I guess the reason is GUI's are
> so popular (ie Windows), printers need drivers and most are only supplied
> with window drivers now, (and linux if your lucky!)   It may be possible to
> redirect the entire file output to the printer from dos using something like
> "c:\filename.exe >> lpt1" or something like that.  If anyone has the exact
> details that would be great.  I also found some information on using inp
> outp or inport outport for communicating through various ports.  In this way
> the printer might be fed some data.  But there are just too many unknowns
> for me to take a stab at.
>
> Jay
>
>
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[Dev-C++] RE: Printing

[CARLSON, J. M. <CA...@st...>]

Reply to printing - take 2 - This is a good way to print from a console.  A
file could be created a console program and then printed with a system()
call.  Below is a sample program that demonstrates how it works.  It is
longer than it has to be to show several variations at the same time.

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

int main(void) {
  
  // assuming  c:\test.txt  exits,  this will work.
  // c:\test.txt should be a small file because it will print 4 times.
  // Notice the double backslash in the first non comment line
  // The backslash is a control characher so the first one 
  //     is stripped out before the command is executed.
  system("print c:\\test.txt");
  system("PRINT c:\\test.txt");
  system("print C:\\TEST.TXT");

  // Other ways to do the same thing.
  // This line could be dangerous - unterminated string
  const char* command01 = "Print C:\\test.txt";     /*  do I need \0 ?
*/
  const char* command02 = "Print C:\\test.txt\0";   /*  \0 ends the string
*/
    // This line could be dangerous - unterminated string
  const char  command03[] = "Print C:\\test.txt";   /*  do I need \0 ?
*/
  const char  command04[] = "Print C:\\test.txt\0"; /*  \0 ends the string
*/

  system(command01);	
  system(command02);
  system(command03);
  system(command04);


  // all valid dos commands can by used by system()
  // you can get a list of commands by typing 
  //     HELP + [enter key]  (if installed)
  //
  system("PAUSE");
  // notice case is not important to the system() call
  return 0;
  }

Jay

Re: [Dev-C++] RE: Printing

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

The compiler always zero-terminate strings if you just give it a chance.

char mystr[] = "foobar";

will store six characters and a termination. It's whey you try

char mystr[6] = "foobar";

that you might get into problems, since the array doesn't allocate space
for a termination. A lot of compilers will complain.

/Per W

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, CARLSON, JAY  MM1 wrote:

> Reply to printing - take 2 - This is a good way to print from a console.  A
> file could be created a console program and then printed with a system()
> call.  Below is a sample program that demonstrates how it works.  It is
> longer than it has to be to show several variations at the same time.
>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main(void) {
>
>   // assuming  c:\test.txt  exits,  this will work.
>   // c:\test.txt should be a small file because it will print 4 times.
>   // Notice the double backslash in the first non comment line
>   // The backslash is a control characher so the first one
>   //     is stripped out before the command is executed.
>   system("print c:\\test.txt");
>   system("PRINT c:\\test.txt");
>   system("print C:\\TEST.TXT");
>
>   // Other ways to do the same thing.
>   // This line could be dangerous - unterminated string
>   const char* command01 = "Print C:\\test.txt";     /*  do I need \0 ?
> */
>   const char* command02 = "Print C:\\test.txt\0";   /*  \0 ends the string
> */
>     // This line could be dangerous - unterminated string
>   const char  command03[] = "Print C:\\test.txt";   /*  do I need \0 ?
> */
>   const char  command04[] = "Print C:\\test.txt\0"; /*  \0 ends the string
> */
>
>   system(command01);
>   system(command02);
>   system(command03);
>   system(command04);
>
>
>   // all valid dos commands can by used by system()
>   // you can get a list of commands by typing
>   //     HELP + [enter key]  (if installed)
>   //
>   system("PAUSE");
>   // notice case is not important to the system() call
>   return 0;
>   }
>
> Jay
>
>
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