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Qbasic and Windows XP
We (no 1 Son) and I are having a problem with Qbasic.
Windows XP ... SP2 ... Qbasic version 4.5 Programs that do not contain the 'SCREEN' instruction, run OK, and the output can be printed out via 'PrtScn' and pasting the clipboard into ... say 'Word'. If the program contains the 'SCREEN' instruction to enable fine positioning of graphics, we are unable to get a printout by any means. The problem is confined (we think) to Windows XP. We are able to get printouts if using Windows 98/Me/2000 Can anyone help us. We have a specimen program, if you think you can help. Have used different printers, different programs to paste into. |
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There's really not much you can do, except rewrite the program in a Windows
XP friendly programming language - one of the dotNet varieties. It all started with WinNT, MS in order to make the OS more stable, began removing the ability for a program to directly manipulate hardware, as time went on Win2k began less tolerable to direct hardware manipulations, and now with WinXP/2k3, there is almost (none that I'm aware) hardware manipulations allowed by an application. The new approach for graphics type manipulation would be to use a DirectX or 3D Windows API (in one of the dotNet languages) - in other words, your application makes its request to Windows and Windows actually tells the hardware what to do. -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your Service! http://www.google.com Google is your "Friend" "Longfellow" wrote in message ... We (no 1 Son) and I are having a problem with Qbasic. Windows XP ... SP2 ... Qbasic version 4.5 Programs that do not contain the 'SCREEN' instruction, run OK, and the output can be printed out via 'PrtScn' and pasting the clipboard into ... say 'Word'. If the program contains the 'SCREEN' instruction to enable fine positioning of graphics, we are unable to get a printout by any means. The problem is confined (we think) to Windows XP. We are able to get printouts if using Windows 98/Me/2000 Can anyone help us. We have a specimen program, if you think you can help. Have used different printers, different programs to paste into. |
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On Mon, 09 May 2005 16:05:07 GMT, "Longfellow"
wrote: We (no 1 Son) and I are having a problem with Qbasic. Windows XP ... SP2 ... Qbasic version 4.5 Programs that do not contain the 'SCREEN' instruction, run OK, and the output can be printed out via 'PrtScn' and pasting the clipboard into ... say 'Word'. If the program contains the 'SCREEN' instruction to enable fine positioning of graphics, we are unable to get a printout by any means. The problem is confined (we think) to Windows XP. We are able to get printouts if using Windows 98/Me/2000 Can anyone help us. We have a specimen program, if you think you can help. Have used different printers, different programs to paste into. XP doesn't support some functions in q/quick basic, such as opening the com port as a file. You may want to try the free justbasic program as it is more XP friendly. |
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"Longfellow" wrote in message ... We (no 1 Son) and I are having a problem with Qbasic. Windows XP ... SP2 ... Qbasic version 4.5 Programs that do not contain the 'SCREEN' instruction, run OK, and the output can be printed out via 'PrtScn' and pasting the clipboard into ... say 'Word'. If the program contains the 'SCREEN' instruction to enable fine positioning of graphics, we are unable to get a printout by any means. The problem is confined (we think) to Windows XP. We are able to get printouts if using Windows 98/Me/2000 Can anyone help us. We have a specimen program, if you think you can help. Have used different printers, different programs to paste into. Well I have tried just about every way that I can think of, so I've taken lots of advice and bought "BBC Basic" from www.rtrussell.co.uk With some help from him, I have managed to convert all my QBasic programs to BBC Basic, and can use the Alt PrtScn keyboard buttons to copy the screen output to the clipboard and then by pasting to the printer. Thanks for your contributions. |
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