I am converting from "green screen" to GUI using accuterm. I can no
longer print a screen inquiry the old way. I am looking for a product
to send all reports to the screen and then have an option to print
them. In reviewing this group, I have seen positive things about
PrintWiz. (www.Anzio.com). We have not been able to get this to work.
Has anybody used this product in D3 Windows? If you have, do you have
any examples.

Goo'day,

On 4 Jun 2006 15:30:05 -0700, arss1 (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:

Whilst I appreciate your mentiion of and dedication to D3, herewith
starteth the <AD> (and other people might be able to glean something
from it, sorry):

We use OpenQM to do exactly what you are looking for. OpenQM, out of
the packet, comes with 2 QMQuery keywords PAN and SCROLL which allow
us to send every QMQuery report to the screen first and then prompt
whether they're to be printed or not.....

There's no "making the screen 132 column wide" or any other size, or
having to put it back to 80 column. Our "standard printer "width"
is 178 characters (laser, landscape, 16 cpi, 8 lpi) and all of that
can be PANned backwards and forwards on an 80 column screen with one
key depression, <L> or <R> for the Oirish among us - check the
keyboard positions of those 2 keys <grin> - or "cursor left/cursor
right", or even one mouse click. SCROLLing backwards and forwards
over previously displayed "screen pages" is one key depression too
(or one mouse click!), with <Page Up>, <Page Down>, <P>revious, cursor
up / cursor down or even the <Page No>.....

Our QMQuery reports are built from sentences within programs, so they
all start off with

PTR = 0
SUBR = ''
and contain:

IF PTR THEN
SENTENCE := \ LPTR n OVERLAY OVLn\.
END ELSE
SENTENCE := \ PAN SCROLL\
END
..
..
EXECUTE SENTENCE....
IF SUBR THEN RETURN
CRT 'Display completed.... To the Printer?':
INPUT REPLY:
IF REPLY = 'Y' THEN
PTR = 1
SUBR = 1
GOSUB wherever...
SUBR = ''
END
STOP

If you put PAN somewhere more meaningful in your SENTENCE, the
left-had columns "stay" leaving the remaining available space on the
right-had-side for panning....

And "What's this 'OVERLAY'?" I hear you asking... Just another FREE
feature of OpenQM allowing you have "page overlays" on every page of
every report, and, in conjunction with another keyword, REPORT.STYLE,
things like coloured or BOLD headings, sub-totals and totals. be
they QMQuery reports or not....

No third-party tricks.... or requirements....

Read all about it! www.ladybridge.com

</AD>

Oh! and, by the way "full" AccuTerm is bundled on a one for one
basis with commercial OpenQM...
Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....

Hi,

<arss1 (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote

Some of them were mine, right?

Yes, I have. Not IN D3 Windows, but WITH D3 Linux and D3 Windows IN Windows.

Examples of what, in particular? Could you, please, be more specific in what
you couldn't do with PrintWizard.

Nick

This would be great. Unfortunatly we can use this right now because we
have to many reports in PROCS. We are converting them all to BASIC,
the OpenQM will probably work for us.

Bruce Nichol wrote:

Goo'day,

On 5 Jun 2006 13:35:37 -0700, arss1 (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:

Has nobody told you? OpenQM now supports PROCS.... Apparently this
was done to help folks such as yourself get the conversion going....

Next excuse? <grin>
Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....