[Gambas-user] Class Window in gb.qt4 vs gb.ncurses

[Fabien Bodard]

And you can use  gb.report and scripter.
 Le 6 mai 2013 04:41, "Dimitris Anogiatis" <dosida at ...626...> a écrit :

> Creating a report from a non-graphical method might prove difficult.
>
> If you are planning on using something like report from an HTML template on
> a PDF File you either need to make sure you can generate a PS or PDF file
> or you can use wkhtmltopdf <https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/> to
> generate your PDF file then shell to lpr to send this to your printer.
>
> Theoretically this could work but it will depend on what HTML features
> wkhtmltopdf <https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/> supports and how you
> make your HTML template.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Benoît Minisini <
> gambas at ...1...> wrote:
>
> > Le 05/05/2013 12:19, Jesus a écrit :
> > > Hi Tobi and all
> > >
> > >
> > > El 05/05/13 09:00, Tobias Boege escribió:
> > >> On Sat, 04 May 2013, Jesus wrote:
> > >>> Recently a friend of mine reported an issue that I'm not sure how to
> > >>> explain correctly.
> > >>>
> > >>> He is making a terminal program that needs to print stuff on a real
> > >>> printer, so it needs the gb.qt4 component to get access to the
> Printer
> > >>> object. But also he needs to use gb.ncurses to do some neat
> > presentation
> > >>> in a terminal in a kind of interactive mode. Problem arises when the
> > >>> *Window* class in gb.ncurses collides with the same class name in
> > gb.qt4
> > >>> (needed to gain access to printer functions) It seems that window
> class
> > >>> in gb.qt4 surpasses the one in gb.ncurses.
> > >>>
> > >>> So, is it a known problem? Does anyone realized this
> "incompatibility"
> > >>> when using both components at the same time?
> > >>> Is there a way to use the printer without using gb.qt4?
> > >>>
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I never thought of using a graphical component together with
> > gb.ncurses. I
> > >> never intended that :-)
> > >
> > > Yes. The point is, how it is supposed to do printing from within
> > > gb.ncurses without using the Printer object (found only inside
> graphical
> > > components)?
> > >
> > > We then should need to do this through CUPS or something, doesn't it?
> > >
> > > The fact is my friend is trying to print a kind of report based in his
> > > own classes that uses Draw and Paint to actually draw a report in a
> > > drawing area when using the full program version, and the file
> > > representing the report itself is interpreted and printed from an
> > > stripped out version of the program that only works in console mode
> > > (interactive curses interface). The logic of printing is the same for
> > > both programs, so qt4 is needed to do all the stuff. Sources here [0].
> > >
> > >
> > >> [...]
> > >>
> > >> What do you mean actually by "surpasses"? Is there an "incorrectly
> > >> overridden" error or does the gb.qt4 Window just override[0] the
> > gb.ncurses
> > >> one? If the latter is the case, you can try to disable gb.ncurses and
> > >> Component.Load() it manually at startup?
> > >
> > > Right, the latter is the case. It makes them incompatible with each
> > other.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I promise that future control classes and a future Window class (using
> > the
> > >> CDK) are more built like their gb.qt4 models but for now think of
> > gb.ncurses
> > >> as a component that conflicts with other graphical components. I don't
> > think
> > >> compatibility can ever be achieved, though.
> > >
> > > I think so, as well... but gb.ncurses programs would need to have a way
> > > to print things. I remember old clipper database programs they were
> able
> > > to print some kind of text based reports. It would be great if printing
> > > could be based in actual drawing routines as qt4 does. But I understand
> > > it probably never ever could be achieved.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Priting from the command-line with cups (a five second google search!)
> >
> > http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html
> >
> > Then you "just" have to generate your report in a format understable by
> > cups (PS, PDF, JPG mainly I think).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Benoît Minisini
> >
> >
> >
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