Is there a way to access the printer in ANSI C ?
I have written a program and would like to print out the data (held in a file).
All I can find is that there seems to be no way to send a file to the printer and stay within the confines of ANSI C.
I am restricting my use to ANSI specs for the portability. Do I have any options?
Working in Win32 console app (VS 2010) I have been trying to convert several Unicode (UTF-16) C++ functions to Ansi C (UTF-8). The test app includes two tokenizer classes, each of which work perfectly well in their respective environments, CTokA and CTokW (UTF-8 and UTF-16).
A problem arises when I attempt to run the UTF-8 functions when the Character Set properties is set to 'Use Unicode Character Set' in that std::string manipulations do not perform as expected, e.g.,
printf("start
");
gets reproduced as
printf("start
");══════════ ²²²²
Attempting to null terminate the string where it is supposed to end simply results in a space in that position and the garbage end persists, e.g.,
printf("sta t
");══════════ ²²²²
Code:
sline[11] = 0x0000;
If I attempt to change the Character Set property to 'Use Multibyte Character Set' or 'Not Set', the app will not compile and hundreds of errors occur. Of course, I can eliminate all of the UTF-16 code, but it strikes me that it should not be necessary. Perhaps if M$ made everything UTF-16 without all of the necessary decorations like 'L' and '_T(', life would be much simpler. Unfortunately, I have a very extensive UTF-8 app under 10 years of development that works quite well, but my UTF-16 (Unicode) conversion doesnt work as well because of the mixing of pointers (I think), so I have had to revert much of the code back to UTF-8. (All of which has nothing to do with my question but is simply psychotheraputic for me to ventilate on.)
My question is this: Can UTF-8 and UTF-16 code coexist in a single Win32 console app?
I'm trying to get the current position of the cursor in the terminal window. I know that the ansi escape sequence " 33[6n" will display the current x and y location of the cursor. But what I can't figure out is how to store the x and y locations into their respective integer variables.
This is what I've done so far:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int line, column;
char cursor_curr_pos[9];
char escape_sequence[] = " 33[6n"; //outputs x and y location of cursor e.g. ^[[18;1R
snprintf(cursor_curr_pos, 9, "%s", escape_sequence); //save output to string
sscanf(cursor_curr_pos, "^[[%d;%dR", &line, &column); //only read numbers from string
}
I need to write a ANSI program to print out each command line argument on a separate line using a for-loop. also it need to print the name of the executable .so far I have
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int i;
printf("")
[code]....
The problem is when i run this program and program is stop working but the output is out.
#include <iostream>
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
void EnumeratePrinters(DWORD flags);
[Code] ....
take a look at this project : [URL] i want to change this project for this purpose : when a USB PRINTER is connected show a message that tell us -> hey this is a printer. which part of this project should i change and how can i separate printer devices from the others?
note: if you are using visual studio 2010 or higher and get error for this line after conversion :
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x403
just replace all of such these lines to stdafx.cpp file. means stdafx.cpp at last should be like this :
// stdafx.cpp : source file that includes just the standard includes
// HWDetect.pch will be the pre-compiled header
// stdafx.obj will contain the pre-compiled type information
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x403
#include "stdafx.h"
I'm not new to C++ programming but I'm not an expert either. I'm using Borland C++ builder 5. I know it's extremely antiquated, but I have no choice right now. Writing a database reporting program, using third party report building components (ACE) which has it's own print dialogs built in. However, in this report we cannot use the build in dialogs and have to use a standard TPrintDialog. When the TPrintDialog is executed and you click print on the dialog, only one page is sent to the printer.
Here's some code:
// The dataset for the report is executed prior to this code and does not //change.
Once the data is gathered, the report can be run as often as you like // and the same data will appear in the report.
Code:
if (cbxShowForm->Checked){
OverlayBand->Visible = true;
AllowPrint = false;
SctReport1->Prompt = false;// disables ACE Reporter Print Dialog
SctReport2->Prompt = false;
[Code] ....
Write a program to simulate a printer queue (priority queue or heap – Bentley article has code) where 3 printers are “fed” by this queue. Each print job has an unchanging priority and higher priority jobs go first (although once started, a job isn't stopped to let a higher one go). For each unit of time, there is a 26% probability that a job will be added to the queue and all jobs take 8 time units to complete. Print job priorities are between 5 and 100. The queue opens 20 time units prior to the start of printing for adding print “jobs”. A print “day” is 1000 time units. The output from your program is:
1) A list of jobs completed with their priorities for each printer
2) A list of jobs not completed (if any).
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
[Code].....
I have a test web page and a windows form which call a printer and sends a print job to a printer that is on the network. I have been able to successfully do this from the windows form, however, I can figure out how to do it from an aspx page to the server's default printer. Sample codes are below.
Windows Form:
public partial class Form1 : Form {
private const string TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY = @"C:Program FilesBrother bPAC3 SDKTemplates"; // Template file path
private const string TEMPLATE_SIMPLE = "NamePlate1.LBX"; // Template file name
private const string TEMPLATE_FRAME = "NamePlate2.LBX"; // Template file name
public Form1() {
InitializeComponent();
[Code] ....
I want to print the output of a c programme to a printer. Operating system is MS Windows xp sp2. This is the programme:
Code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{
printf("
Hello Chandan2... ");
getch();
}
The output "Hello Chandan2..." is to be printed in printer, when i run the programme , but how to do it?
I've got a project to develop a virtual pdf printer driver for windows in C++ programming language.
how to develop a virtual pdf printer driver. google only shows results for .NET languages but I need for C++ language only.
How to proceed to develop this driver.
I'm in the middle of creating a ePOS for my uncle and so far I've created a database for it where it will create, update and delete records successfully.
My next step I would like to do is to create a printer till thing, but how do I connect my database to that ?
I can create a till but how do I do link my database with it? I followed this example here [URL] ....
I have code that prints.
PrintDlg.
StartDoc
StartPage
TextOut
EndPage
EndDoc
I am trying to calculate left margin from (inchis * 100) to pixels. So the left input for TextOut will be correct. How do I do this?
We have an assignment in which we have to implement a printer spooler using linked lists. I have used the list from STL to implement everything. I can get the program to send the print command and maintain status of documents. The problem is I don't know how to mimic/send a dummy print command so the document gets printed. If I use Sleep() there is a delay in the whole program.while I want printing on backhand and others users to have access to the program.
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[Code]....
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lpt.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
I am using PDF Creator printer to print my files. I have set it as default printer. It displays two dialogs .. "Printer Setup Dialog" and "Dialog asking filename and other details to save to file".
I want to avoid these two dialogs. But EndDoc calls the other dialog by default. How to do this ?
I am trying to print a barcode form HClabel printer through my application running on Windows server 2008. The printer is a ntwork printer connected to a Windows 7 Machine.
The code to access the printer and proceed with printing is in VC++. The code has been working fine since years and it still works when I try to print from Windows XP machine(Connect and print on the same printer connected to WIndows 7 machine mentioned above).
The error code I receive when tried to print from windows server 2008 is 2 which says File not found. But when i access the machine from windows server 2008, it is accessible.
Below is the code I use:
if( m_hPrinter != NULL )
EndWriter();
m_hPrinter = ::CreateFile(lpPrinterName,GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL );
if( m_hPrinter == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
[Code] .....
what might be causing this to fail-only on the new operating system I use(Windows server 2008)
I'm trying to print Chinese/unicode characters to a line printer(EPSON LQ-2090) using the writePrinter method in c++.
ANSI characters print fine, but when I throw the buffer of widechar Chinese characters at it, they come out like garbage/ANSI chars.
while debuging string shows chinese characters but in memory it shows ANSI characters not chinese and these ANSI characters are get printed on printer.
Note that if I change the DocInfo datatype parameter to "TEXT" instead of "RAW" then also the Chinese characters donot print.
Is there a way to get Chinese or unicode characters to print correctly?