Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bc
From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Printing card field
Keywords: Printing fields
Message-ID: <44777@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 90 17:22:24 GMT
References: <2303@linac.fnal.gov>
Distribution: usa
Organization: private consulting available now
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In article <2303@linac.fnal.gov> palkovic@linac.fnal.gov writes:
|How do I print a card field? Preferably with a button. I have a
|Hypercard stack that I use to read mail. Each mail message has it's
|own card. I would like to have a button named "Print Message" to print
|the current message. It is in a card field.

In HC 1.2.5:
on PrintMessage fieldlongname
  -- first write the field to a file
  open file "tempfoo"
  write fieldlongname to "tempfoo"
  close file "tempfoo"
  --now use another application to print the file
  print "tempfoo" with "teachtext"
end PrintMessage

in HC 2.0:
on PrintMessage fieldlongname
  open printing
  -- choose one of the following two lines:
  print fieldlongname -- with formatting intact
  print (fieldlongname) -- with no formatting
  close printing
end PrintMessage

pretty neat, eh?

bill coderre
private consultant for hire