Re: Doing N-Up Printing programatically - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Nelek29-Oct-07 0:20

29-Oct-07 0:20

Then, if I understand it correctly... you can not do it as you think. I think you should programatically give the printing output in one size or in another depending in your options. But not overriding DEVMODE, with OnPrint ().

Maybe I am not right and there is a way. If true... I will learn another new thing Smile | :)

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Re: Doing N-Up Printing programatically

Bauxinator29-Oct-07 0:36

Bauxinator

29-Oct-07 0:36

But how will changing the output size make the printer to put 2 pages on 1 sheet?
I thought that's the purpose of multiple pages per sheet option that the printer is able to handle resizing of each page to fit multiple pages on one sheet?

p.s.: Thx for your quick replies, I appreciate that!

Re: Doing N-Up Printing programatically

Nelek29-Oct-07 1:29

Nelek

29-Oct-07 1:29

It maybe is so... but the thing is not all printers have these solution, so the "standards" won't have the specifical parameters of some devices.

I have taken a look into DEVMODE structure... the possibilities that I have found is a mixing of

dmScale, dmPosition, dmDuplex

But I don't know how to make it working for your conditions.

EDIT:

I have check this DEVMODE.

DEVMODE
The DEVMODE data structure contains information about the device initialization and environment of a printer. 

typedef struct _devicemode {    // dvmd 
    BCHAR  dmDeviceName[CCHDEVICENAME]; 
    WORD   dmSpecVersion; 
    WORD   dmDriverVersion; 
    WORD   dmSize; 
    WORD   dmDriverExtra; 
    DWORD  dmFields; 
    union {
      struct {
        short dmOrientation;
        short dmPaperSize;
        short dmPaperLength;
        short dmPaperWidth;
      };
      POINTL dmPosition;
    };
    short  dmScale; 
    short  dmCopies; 
    short  dmDefaultSource; 
    short  dmPrintQuality; 
    short  dmColor; 
    short  dmDuplex; 
    short  dmYResolution; 
    short  dmTTOption; 
    short  dmCollate; 
    BCHAR  dmFormName[CCHFORMNAME]; 
    WORD  dmLogPixels; 
    DWORD  dmBitsPerPel; 
    DWORD  dmPelsWidth; 
    DWORD  dmPelsHeight; 
    DWORD  dmDisplayFlags; 
    DWORD  dmDisplayFrequency; 
#if(WINVER >= 0x0400) 
    DWORD  dmICMMethod;
    DWORD  dmICMIntent;
    DWORD  dmMediaType;
    DWORD  dmDitherType;
    DWORD  dmReserved1;
    DWORD  dmReserved2;
#if (WINVER >= 0x0500) || (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0400)
    DWORD  dmPanningWidth;
    DWORD  dmPanningHeight;
#endif
#endif /* WINVER >= 0x0400 */
} DEVMODE;

Re: Doing N-Up Printing programatically

Bauxinator29-Oct-07 2:29

Bauxinator

29-Oct-07 2:29

No worries, cheers anyway spending your time on that!

Re: Doing N-Up Printing programatically

She_Jack6-Jul-10 22:59

She_Jack

6-Jul-10 22:59

Hi Chris,

Infact i was also trying to do the same . Now its done for me .Please follow the below link . You will find ur answer.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/System/Windows__Programming/A_2090-How-to-set-Pages-Per-Sheet-Programmatically-for-N-Up-Printing.html

If u still have any problem. Please do let me know .

Regards,
Jack

Re: Doing N-Up Printing programatically

Bauxinator7-Jul-10 7:22

Bauxinator

7-Jul-10 7:22

Thank you very much, sir Cool | :cool:

I couldn't even remember I was posting here, but anway your link turns out very useful for me, that's for sure.

Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

But it needs to be checked if the private printer data of the DEVMODE structure is really the same for all printers. To be honest, I doubt that. Could be that for another printer the n-up printing byte is somewhere completely different and writing the byte described in your link does something really fancy then ...

Re: Doing N-Up Printing programatically

She_Jack11-Jul-10 22:45

She_Jack

11-Jul-10 22:45

Hi Chris,

For my Printer n-up printing byte turns out to be 159 byte . And you are correct that private members are drivers specific and it need not be same .

So I am trying to find out any way so that we can find out which Byte is reponsible for N-Up print setting . As I have to implement N-Up printing for my applications Print Dialog .

I guess you are also trying to do the same . If you know any way to get that,please let me also know .

I would be really thankful for that .

Regards,
Jack

Re: Doing N-Up Printing programatically

Bauxinator11-Jul-10 22:59

Bauxinator

11-Jul-10 22:59

Actually, I gave up in 2007 to investigate further on that topic since it was not a customer request but an internal one and we decided not to put more effort in it. So I guess I wont't be a big help here at least not in finding the right byte.

Of course I can offer you to run a compiled test program with the printers we have installed here in my office. I don't want to grab your sourcecode, so if you say you have something compiled already and want some testing on additional printers, you're very welcome!

Maybe if I find some time this week I could at least test if our printers have the N-up byte at the same location in the DEVMODE structure, but we're in the middle of pushing out a new release of our software this week, so I'll be busy with patching and testing most probably Frown | :(

Restarting Windows

RomTibi28-Oct-07 9:47

RomTibi

28-Oct-07 9:47

Is there any VC++6 function that can be used to restart or end the opperating system? Confused | :confused:

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Re: Restarting Windows

Garth J Lancaster28-Oct-07 10:30

Garth J Lancaster

28-Oct-07 10:30

look at some of the code in these two articles :-

http://www.codeproject.com/system/ShutDownAlarm.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/system/StayON.asp[^]

Re: Restarting Windows

RomTibi29-Oct-07 6:28

RomTibi

29-Oct-07 6:28

Thamks!

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...
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Re: Restarting Windows

Hamid_RT28-Oct-07 19:09

Hamid_RT

28-Oct-07 19:09

See ExitWindowsEx.

Re: Restarting Windows

RomTibi29-Oct-07 6:27

RomTibi

29-Oct-07 6:27

Thanks!

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...
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Re: Restarting Windows

Hamid_RT29-Oct-07 7:21

Hamid_RT

29-Oct-07 7:21

You're welcome.;)

Re: Restarting Windows

ThatsAlok30-Oct-07 1:57

ThatsAlok

30-Oct-07 1:57

use InitiateSystemShutdown api, though http://www.codeproject.com/system/ShutDownAlarm.asp[^] will give you demo for same.

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Re: Restarting Windows

RomTibi30-Oct-07 9:00

RomTibi

30-Oct-07 9:00

Thanks again!

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...
Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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Need help with console character interface

jp-mocs28-Oct-07 9:20

jp-mocs

28-Oct-07 9:20

Hi all...
I'm looking for a good toolkit (with source) that will help me build a character based user interface for console applications using C++ in Visual Studio 2005. I'm doing a retro app, and I can't seem to find a good tool-kit that will let me define windows with different characteristics (allow word wrap, scrolling, borders, etc) and (preferably) use ANSI escape code graphics. Anyone know of a good one? I kinda want the source to go with it, so I can muddle around with it and see how they do things (doesn't everyone?). Appreciate any help...

=->Mocs<-=

Reading excel worksheet from clipboard

Andy H28-Oct-07 6:37

Andy H

28-Oct-07 6:37

Does anyone know of any methods for successfully reading an Excel worksheet that has been copied to the clipboard? It would need to be in BIFF8 format.

Unreacheable subitem prepaint stage.

paper6728-Oct-07 5:36

paper67

28-Oct-07 5:36

Hi,

I have a CListCtrl derived class, where I want control over the subitem painting. The control is in report mode with some subitems. The insertion of items seems to work but nothing appears in the control since I draw all the subitems myself. I figured out that the subitem prepaint stage is never called. The item prepaint stage on the other hand gets called.
What could could be the reason for this problem ?

void CXListCtrl::OnCustomDraw(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult)
{
NMLVCUSTOMDRAW *pLVCD = reinterpret_cast<nmlvcustomdraw *="">(pNMHDR);

// Take the default processing unless we set this to something else below.
*pResult = CDRF_DODEFAULT;

// First thing - check the draw stage. If it's the control's prepaint
// stage, then tell Windows we want messages for every item.
if (pLVCD->nmcd.dwDrawStage == CDDS_PREPAINT)
*pResult = CDRF_NOTIFYITEMDRAW;
else
{
if (pLVCD->nmcd.dwDrawStage == CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT)
// This is the notification message for an item. We'll request
// notifications before each subitem's prepaint stage.
*pResult = CDRF_NOTIFYSUBITEMDRAW;
else
{
// ***** This block of code gets never called. *****

if (pLVCD->nmcd.dwDrawStage == (CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT | CDDS_SUBITEM))
{
// This is the prepaint stage for a subitem.
:
:
}
}
}
}

tia

How to recored and play mp3 files

Mohsen Saad28-Oct-07 0:26

Mohsen Saad

28-Oct-07 0:26

How can I record and play sound file in mp3 format ?

Re: How to recored and play mp3 files

Mark Salsbery28-Oct-07 7:39

Mark Salsbery

28-Oct-07 7:39

I assume you mean programmatically...

For capturing and rendering audio samples there's
(included with Windows):

Windows Multimedia Audio[^]
DirectSound[^]

For compressing/decompressing PCM samples to MP3 you
could use the Audio Compression Manager (ACM)[^]. You'll
need an ACM-compatible MP3 codec to use ACM.

There's no MP3 codec included with Windows, but there's
some available from 3rd party sources. Google "LAME MP3"
for an example of a free MP3 codec.

You may find other open-source MP3 projects that have code that
is simpler to use than ACM.

You could also study MP3 compression and write your own codec code.

Mark

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: How to recored and play mp3 files

Hamid_RT28-Oct-07 19:12

Hamid_RT

28-Oct-07 19:12

See Sound recording and encoding in mp3 format.[^] and
Ey Media Player [^].

PadRight

teejayem27-Oct-07 11:39

teejayem

27-Oct-07 11:39

.NET has a function called String.PadRight. how can i duplicate this in win32?

thanks in advance,

Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good

Re: PadRight

Mark Salsbery27-Oct-07 12:29

Mark Salsbery

27-Oct-07 12:29

Something like this maybe (not tested!)...

LPTSTR MyPadRight(LPCTSTR pSrcStr, int nNewLen, TCHAR padchar)
{
   int nNewStrLen = max(_tcslen(pSrcStr) + 1, nNewLen + 1);

   TCHAR *pNewStr = new TCHAR[nNewStrLen];

   _tcscpy(pNewStr, pSrcStr)

   for (int i = _tcslen(pSrcStr); i < nNewStrLen - 1; ++i)
      pNewStr[i] = padchar;

   pNewStr[nNewStrLen - 1] = _T('\0');

   return pNewStr;
}

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: PadRight

teejayem27-Oct-07 15:21

teejayem

27-Oct-07 15:21

Hey Mark, Thank you for the reply. I set up a similar function to the one you posted but for some reason when i pass the integer looks as if it isn't even initialized. I am passing 15 as the value but when i check it in the debugger it is 13045942 D'Oh! | :doh:

. What can i be doing wrong?

the signature for the function is like this:

static char* PadRight(int nCharsToPad, char *strToPad, char chPadValue);

and i'm calling it like this:

StringHelper::PadRight(15, "padMe", '0');

Thanks again,

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