HMG Print Samples — 2

Posted on September 12, 2013 by vivaclipper

Print a plain text file by HMG Print – 1

Download source ( .prg, .hbp ) and sample text files.

HMG Print Samples – 1

Posted on September 11, 2013 by vivaclipper

HMG Print ( Mini Print ) for beginners in 10 easy steps

Printing is one of jobs most causing headaches in xBase programming.

For programmers coming from oldy – goldy DOS days printing may be bigger trouble.

DOS experiences may be an impediment instead of easiness. Because many programmer don’t want quite their old habits and think that with a little work ( or by a magic wand ) they would convert (or without any conversion) their DOS print routines may work in the Windows or any other GUI medium.

One cause of this problem is probably seeing GUI printing methods so much complex and difficult.

Main goal of this “HMG Print Samples” work is demonstrate how many easy using HMG (Mini) Print.

Download ( sources and sample data files )

Happy HMG’ing 😀

How I can print

Posted on September 5, 2013 by vivaclipper

How I can use printer under Windows ?

NOTE : Before printing you may look at converting DOS characters to Windows.

Printing is one of master necessities of business programming; reports, lists, payrolls, bills, etc.

In oldy – goldy DOS days everything was easy, because everything was simple.

While Windows bring up tons of innovations and possibilities to our life, naturally bring also tons of complexities so difficulties.

Printer usage is one of most important. In DOS, like every system resource, printers too was completely under our control. We could anything possible to OUR printers: print anything in any format ( bold, compressed, emphasized, etc) on anywhere of the paper, page eject, move print head forward ( even backward) etc.

In Windows there isn’t a single machine, single user, single printer. Main philosophy of Windows is “Network everywhere“. Whatever your system configuration is, Window treat it as “Network”. Although we cannot disclaim benefits of this approach, printer issue become problematic to us.

Now, Windows says : “there isn’t YOUR printer, all printers ( even exist only one ) are network printers. If you have something to print, you can’t send it directly to printer; ask me and wait for I’ll do something for you.”

Since we can’t rollback the time (and this isn’t necessary); only way for us is : playing game depending its rules. On printing, we should learn and utilize printing ways of Windows.

Here I would talk about possibilities, ways and opportunities of printing.

Obsolete Ways

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GUI ways

HMG Print ( Mini Print ) for beginners in 10 easy steps

Print a plain text file by HMG Print – 1