Again, Thank you Daniel. Very good detailed information. I will put this
away for later reference.
You have helped me get past several hurdles and helped me with my
understanding of the the Spooler.
*I have one last hurdle related to printing that I am still trying to
figure out a solution for.*
I will go ahead and describe it here for you and any others to offer any
suggestions or possible solutions.
Problem -
I only have one printer. An HP Laserjet 500 MFP M525.
I need to print several different report formats to this printer e.g. 80
column, 132 column, and varying font sizes.
In my previous environment (UniVerse on a Windows 2k Server) I was able to
modify the SP.ASSIGN program to use a file I created.
The SP.ASSIGN was a program that executed the SETPTR command behind the
scenes. SETPTR in that environment had more options than are available in
jBASE 5.7.
I was able to utilize these other options to accomplish my requirements. By
reading the file I created that held the options I wanted, everything was
correctly set during assignment of the printer (SP-ASSIGN).
Here are a couple examples of records from the file I created - It held the
printer, page width and length, top and bottom margins, print mode, font
type, size, and the other available options I needed.
I would parse out the forms assignment from the SP-ASSIGN, read the file,
get the options, and execute the SETPTR command with the required options.
0
TOP
.P
TOP
001 HP5SI
002 ,132,59,0,0,
003 GDI,FONTNAME Courier,FONTSIZE 7
004
005
006 132 COLUMN
3
TOP
.P
TOP
001 HP5SI
002
003
004
005 3
006 &HOLD& OUTPUT
BOTTOM
*jBASE support mentioned I would need to use jspforms which I will start
researching, but thought I would ask the question now for any
comments/suggestions.*
Thank you,
Patrick
On Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 3:22:57 PM UTC-7, Daniel Klein wrote:
>
> You are correct, the 'n' in this case is the channel number and is used
> with PRINT ON.
>
> These statement groups are equivalent (using the queue names from my
> original post):
>
> SP-ASSIGN 42=VENUS
> SP-ASSIGN 52=EARTH
>
> SP-ASSIGN F2 R42
> SP-ASSIGN F3 R52
>
> SP-ASSIGN Q2 R42
> SP-ASSIGN Q3 R52
>
> SETPTR 42,,,,,,VENUS
> SETPTR 52,,,,,,EARTH
> [I'm not as fluent with SETPTR but I do know that the first parameter is
> the channel. Not sure if I got the right number of commas in there.
> However, I find the SP-ASSIGN syntax more intuitive and can do most, if not
> all, of the things SETPTR can.]
>
> Once the channels are assigned to the queues, you can do things like this
> in a BASIC program
>
> PRINTER ON 42
> PRINTER ON 52
> PRINT ON 52 "Launch the rocket to VENUS" ;* Prints to the EARTH form queue
> PRINT ON 42 "Houston, we have a problem!" ;* prints to the VENUS form queue
>
> Daniel
> Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet...unless I wrote it. ;-)
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Mark Hogden <ma...@proman.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> =fqname is the same as 0=fqname which equates to the default PRINT in JBC
>> 1=fqname is used for PRINT ON 1
>> You can go up to 99=fqname if memory serves.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2018, at 09:24, Patrick McCann <osag...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Thank you for the excellent and detailed information. It really gives me
>> a good understanding between the two.
>>
>> Now having a better understanding of the two I have some follow-up
>> questions I am hoping you might be able to provide some help on.
>>
>> I would like to understand the following -
>>
>> *Rn assigns specific report number n. Only valid if an equals sign (=),
>> is not present in the command line.*
>>
>>
>> Is this command in anyway related to the form queue number? I don't
>> believe so, but am not sure. I think it is used with "PRINT ON {n}", but
>> would like to know for sure.
>>
>> And last, in the following command -
>>
>> *SETPTR {channel},,,,,,BANNER 'Some user text'*
>>
>> Is {channel} in anyway associated with the form queue number or is it
>> just used to set-up the page characteristics for the "PRINT ON..."?
>>
>> Thanks again for your help.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 7:47:37 PM UTC-7, Patrick McCann wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am hoping somebody can help make sense of this for me.
>>>
>>> I am trying to understand the difference/relationship/etc... between the
>>> two. I have read the documentation and still can't figure it out.
>>>
>>> Looking at the following from the documentation, it talks about the
>>> queue number, and only valid if NO (=) sign is present.
>>>
>>> *Fn assigns specific form queue number n. Only valid if an equals sign
>>> (=), is not present in the command line.*
>>>
>>>
>>> Does every form queue name have an associated form queue number? If so,
>>> how it is defined? Can it be changed? What is the purpose?
>>>
>>> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Patrick
>>>
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