[Gambas-user] languages

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 31/03/2016 18:19, Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen a écrit :
> hello Benoit
>
> it is a big pity that people are using very much their native languages
> in the forums. if i try to get simple examples (and i mean simple), the
> are mostly in french or spanish, so i cannot understand the
> explanations. f.exs. the printer example goes over my horizon, perhaps i
> get silly on my old days. the same for report. i just want to print a
> pure textfile, and have no chanse zo achive that with the samples on the
> softwarefarm. i struggled now since 2 days and give it up.
>
> sorry to say, the structures are not to overlook for me, where to find
> what.
> i am and old-fashioned line-by-line programmer, understand of course
> event-programming. but many of the properties are explained so poor -
> the say nothing at all. many times only one line, where are useful
> examples? not page by page, only one simple example to describe the
> function. not everyone is, like you, capebal to write an compiler.
> feeling lost.
>
> kind regards
> Dag
>

The "Printing" example project is in english, but it has no comment 
inside. Does it help you anyway? What don't you understand?

In Gambas 3 (copying the way GTK+ and QT actually work), the Printer is 
an object that raise an event before printing ('Begin' event), one for 
each page that must be printed ('Draw' event) and an event when 
everything is finished ('End' event).

But it can't know how many pages to print by itself, so you have to tell 
it in the 'Count' property during the 'Begin' event.

Then, if you event a clean text print, it's no so simple, as you have to 
layout your text carefully before printing to know how many pages you 
have to print.

Finally, actually starting all that process is done by calling the 
'Print' method on the Printer object.

To see what I mean, just run the 'Printing' example step by step using 
the debugger.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini