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From: cyosta@taux01.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to change a printing port's portrect?
Message-ID: <874@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 14:37:24 GMT
References: <873@taux01.UUCP> <9566@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
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In article <9566@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>
>What is in the Print Record whose Handle you pass to PrOpenDoc?  You
>shouldn't have to change this stuff, but rather should negotiate with
>the Printing Manager to set up a Print Record first.  Then when you
>open the printing port you should get a portRect which corresponds to
>the prInfo.rPage Rect in the Print Record.  Are you calling
>PrintDefault and/or the Printing Dialog routines before opening the
>port?
>
Well, I am doing all that, i think.  I am calling the page setup routine
in response to the page setup menu item.  I am calling the printer job
routine in response to the print... command.  I call the default routine
as the first thing i do in the program to intialize the print record.
And then I open the port and get the screenbits port.  I also get the
screenbits port when I start a new page.  I am sorry I can't remember
the names of the routines.  Can you or someone post a skeleton print
procedure(s)  I.e. what to do when I start my program, what to do
when the page setup is chosen, what to do when the print... is chosen
and what to do at the end of the program (well, I don't do anything, but
maybe that is wrong too).  I also figured out that I should bracket all
non-interruptible (by menu's etc..) procedures which deal with printing
with PrOpen and PrClose so that a new resource file could be opened by
chooser should the user desire to do so.  The IM I use (phonebook) says
that the calls should only be called at the begining and end of program.
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