Esteemed Perl-Win32 people,
How do I send a plain ASCII text file to the default printer
from a Perl program?
Win32::Printer has been discontinued (or so says CPAN)
and as far as I know it is not available from activestate.com for Perl
5.10.
I need to do this from XP, Vista, and beyond.
2009/12/16 Jon Bjornstad j...@logicalpoetry.com
Esteemed Perl-Win32 people,
How do I send a plain ASCII text file to the default printer
from a Perl program?
Win32::Printer has been discontinued (or so says CPAN)
and as far as I know it is not available from activestate.com for Perl
5.10.
I don't know how to send to the default printer, but to send ascii text to a
windows printer, you can share the printer, then open the share just like a
normal file.
You may have to send a final form-feed character to get the last page out of
the printer.
Open FILE
Hi --
Short version: how can we simulate .NET/VB object-type CASTing, in
Win32::OLE Perl?
Long version:
We're building a bridge between a java-web-app and a .net-based-desktop app.
Perl is the glue language of choice, of course :)
Where we've got trouble is that the .net programmers tell us we
Win32::OLE uses late binding (the IDispatch interface, aka OLE Automation);
there is no such thing as casting to different objects
as there is only a single IDispatch interface per object. This is the same as
using Jscript or VBScript, but not VB or C++ which
normally use early binding.
It
Thanks Jan. We've got the .NET wonks working on just this approach.
BTW... what does it take to get the PerlScript OLE browser to work? I tried
a quick test (below) and PerlScript is working in IE, but the OLE browser
frames are all empty except for the default could not load gripe at the
bottom.
Ok, here is what Graham from ActiveState support tells me:
You may also need to go to the Security tab in the Internet Options, select
Local intranet and click on the Sites button.
Then disable the Automatically detect intranet network and instead select the
individual choices underneath
