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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: vgrind, midi, smartPrintPS and WordPerfect...
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Date: 22 Apr 91 09:03:13 GMT
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Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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I just have a couple of random questions...

a) Has anyone gotten vgrind to work? I get some strange messages that
I can't make head or tail of. If there is no simple solution, I'll
ask_next the problem...
b) Who can give me the name of a reasonably priced midi-interface that
works and has been tested on a 040 cube?
c) for a small app and for prototypes, I want as a quick hacky
solution to printing to print just the whole window as shown on
screen. This work fairly well by sendin the window a smartPrintPS
message (this can be set up entirely from IB).
Now the problem comes: if you define your own PS functions that are
used in one of the windows subviews and define them when you
initFrame: the view, these are unknown to the printer, since they are
not defined each time you do a drawSelf: I understand that there is
beginSetup method, that should be called automatically when something
is printed, exactly to avoid this problem. However when I put in there
my initialization PS code, this seems not to be recognized either. Am
I missing something obvious? My ad hoc solution is to call the init.
functions each time when I do a drawSelf: and define the custom
functions only when they are not yet defined (where command). However
I don't like this approach too much. Again, if there is no simple
solution known, I'll ask_next.
d) This is not a question, but a suggestion: WordPerfect is available
for PC-Unix boxes and bigger iron with a character interface. I
thought it would be a nice touch if WordPerfect added this version of
WP to the NeXT distribution. This would allow users access to their
files even from remote terminals and when logged in via a modem. Not
only would this be VERY convenient, but also a big advantage over
WriteNow that is completely useless when one happens not to be at the
console... I hope they give it a good though. It would certainly
convice me to switch from WriteNow to WP...

Ronald
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