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From: fwb@demon.siemens.com (Frederic W. Brehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Print Report for selected cards
Message-ID: <14523@siemens.siemens.com>
Date: 29 Aug 89 21:49:56 GMT
References: <980@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
Reply-To: fwb@demon.UUCP (Frederic W. Brehm)
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research
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willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes:
>Things are mostly pretty straightforward, but there is one thing that
>I haven't figured out how to do.  I would like to be able to print a
>report for selected cards; for example all cards that contain
>"windsurfing" as an interest.

Here is an outline of what to do (details are left as an exercise for the
reader :-)

1) Generate a file name and put it into a global variable file_name.  I
    have found that it should have a full path name (printing with an
    application does not seem to work properly otherwise).

2) Execute the command

    open file file_name

3) Search for your selection criteria.  When you have it, do

    on haveCardToPrint
	global file_name
	write return & field "Name and Address" & return to file file_name
	-- or whatever you want to write
    end someEvent

4) When you are all done, then

    on printReport
	global file_name
	close file file_name
	answer "Print " & quote & file_name & quote & "?" \
	    with "Cancel" or "Edit" or "Print"
	if it is "Print" then
	    print file_name with "TeachText"
	else if it is "Edit" then
	    open file_name with "TeachText"
	end if
    end printList

I hope this helps.
Fred
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Frederic W. Brehm	Siemens Corporate Research	Princeton, NJ
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