Hello!
I will possibly get an order to write a small program which does nothing else than printing exported block data from AutoCAD in a nice form. (Data are exported into a text file which is parsed and printed by my program.) Because this can be done without any user interface, it should be enough to use a simple windoze-console, where I print some status infos, nothing else...
Because I use 100% Linux, I would either have to install windoze somewhere, or, if possible, do the whole thing on FPC for Linux and do a compilation for a windoze-exe.
- Is this possible at all?
- What must I install in addition to my FPC 1.0.4 for Linux on my Linux machine to have the possibility for cross-compilation?
Another problem will be printing. Under Linux, this is trivial: Open a pipe to lpr and write out everything as PostScript. The rest is done by GhostScript and Linux....
How is this in Windows? I never wrote a windows application before! I heared from a friend that it is much more complicated!
- can somebody, please, send me simple program for seeing how this has to be done? (Open the windoze standard printer, choose a font, scale it, and simply write something onto the paper, maybe with 1-2 graphical elements (lines and/or gray shaded boxes, and/or print i.e. a blue box with a yellow text inside.)
That is plenty enough for what I need.
mfg
Ing. Rainer Hantsch