Printers...
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I just finished up a program for keeping stock and stuff, how do I access a printer to print a reciept? I need to know how to access it and how I arrange the aesthetics of the printed material.
Thanks in advance!
I'm assuming here you're using C++ for Windows. If that's the case, what you need to do is get a device context to the printer. The easiest way to do this is to create a PRINTDLG structure, and use it with the PrintDlg function. See this code:
Most of this is taken more or less straight from MSDN stuff. As far as actually printing what you want to a page, you'd treat it exactly like you would to a window. Any functions like StretchBlt, FrameRect, etc., work just as they do on a window, to my experience anyway.
Hope this helps-
-Arek the Absolute
[edited by - Arek the Absolute on June 9, 2002 9:34:36 PM]
PRINTDLG pd;memset ((void *) &pd, 0, sizeof(PRINTDLG));pd.lStructSize = sizeof(PRINTDLG);pd.hwndOwner = hwnd;pd.Flags = PD_RETURNDC;pd.hInstance = NULL;PrintDlg(&pd);HDC ghdc = pd.hDC;if (pd.hDevMode) GlobalFree (pd.hDevMode);if (pd.hDevNames) GlobalFree (pd.hDevNames);DOCINFO di;SetMapMode (ghdc, MM_TEXT);di.cbSize = sizeof(DOCINFO);di.lpszDocName = "Test";di.lpszOutput = NULL;StartDoc(ghdc, &di);StartPage(ghdc);// Print your stuff hereEndPage(ghdc);EndDoc(ghdc); Most of this is taken more or less straight from MSDN stuff. As far as actually printing what you want to a page, you'd treat it exactly like you would to a window. Any functions like StretchBlt, FrameRect, etc., work just as they do on a window, to my experience anyway.
Hope this helps-
-Arek the Absolute
[edited by - Arek the Absolute on June 9, 2002 9:34:36 PM]
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