How can I print out something from a ScalaScript?
Often times, it is desirable to be able to, for example, print a coupon in a kiosk application from a ScalaScript. Here's a way to do that today.
Work-Around:
Here is what you need: - Windows Scripting Host Installed (www.microsoft.com/scripting) - Microsoft Word (I used Office 2000) - Designer
- Small VB Script Here is the ScalaScript: !ScalaScript EVENT Group:
Integer(x, n); Boolean(status); BackgroundSettings(Size(640, 480));
Config.SaveOpts(SaveEditable(On)); Sequence: x =
Open("test.doc",write); status = WriteStr(x,"Hello World!"); n =
Close(x); Launch("c:\print.vbs"); Quit(1); END This is a very simple
example that uses the File I/O EX to write "Hello World" to a file no
disk. IC Designer will put this file in the Data: directory. You can
not write outside of that directory btw. The Launch command will
execute this VBScript that in this example is located at C:\ but could
be anywhere. Set app = Wscript.CreateObject("Word.Application")
app.Documents.Open("c:\program files\scala\icdesigner\data\test.doc")
app.Options.PrintBackground = False app.ActiveDocument.PrintOut So this
script opens Word and uses the Documents.Open method to bring in the
text file created in the Scala Script. Then it sets some options and
executes the method that actually prints the file. I hope this helps.
Maybe in the future we will add a ScalaScript function for printing.
