On 07/10/2017 03:18, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 06:21 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
I'm not sure what printing to a window or image would mean, or how
it's useful, but sure.
Print to window: Print Preview.
Print to image: export to pdf or jpg or png.
Except that that isn't what you get in his programming language. What
you seem to get (judging from his response to the post you're quoting)
is something that lets you treat a GUI window as if it were a console,
printing text to it in some sort of "glass teletype" way. Leaves me
wondering if he's ever taken one of his apps to a system that uses a
different default font, or anything like that. Unless all his GUIs are
built in HTML?
(That particular language was one I was using over 20 years ago and it
was an integrated part of a CAD application (and it started off
pre-Windows).
The app also supported printer/plotter/image destinations including
PostScript. The same language could take a marked-up text file, convert
it to a series of drawing elements, then render and print that page on a
PS printer. Then the same with the next page. I think I did a 350-page
manual like that. With pictures.
My current language doesn't link its 'print' to graphic displays or images.)
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