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- From: jcl@bdrc.bd.com (John C. Lusth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
- Subject: printing
- Message-ID: <1658@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 19:38:53 GMT
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- This question maybe a FAQ; if it is, I most humbly apologize and will
- wait anxiously for it to appear as it is not on site at the moment.
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- How does one print using OWL? The Borland documentation is very confusing
- to me (perhaps because I'm a windows newbie). It seems to me that
- all I would need to do is instead of writing to a display context
- I would write to device context instead. Windows should take
- care of everything else for me. Thus, if I had a function that produced
- some output, I would send it a device context or a display context
- depending on where I wanted the output to go. Am I being naive?
-
- Another question is how to I get a device context? The CreateDC function
- needs the driver name, the device name, and so on. Why do I need to
- supply these things? I just want output to go to the default printer.
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- Would some kind soul send me a minimal program to print the phrase
- "Hello, world!" via Windows?
-
- thanks muchly,
-
- john
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- John C. Lusth, Becton Dickinson Research Center, RTP, NC, USA jcl@bdrc.bd.com
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