Printing more than screen

[crugh]

Hi,

I am trying to develop a worksheet creator for our elementary school. The teacher types in a sentence and clicks create and the program generates their sentence in dots and with paper lines in the background. The students will then use this to practice handwriting.

The problem is I can not set it up so that the program will print the full page of 11 lines or so. It only prints what shows on the screen.

I tried a pop-up subapp with a large screen size to match the A4 size paper but this is bigger then their computer screen and awkward. I have tried a to set a bigger frame size than the application window and print the part that is not visible.

Is it possible to create a preview as in text editor programs or at least scrollable full view that can be printed?

Thanks for any suggestions or help on how to set this up.

[DJFuego]

Load a scanned picture of the blank a4 page into the Overlay object and then paste the text onto this with the paste into overlay action. You should be able to save the pasted text in the overlay as a BMP and then open this in windows image previewer and then go through the photo printing wizard.

You could also try printing the non visible area with the printer object.

[Brovic]

You could also try printing the non visible area with the printer object.

Sadly that doesn't work. I already had a discussion with Yves about the printer object on the french forum and it turns out that it has not been optimized so only takes screenshots of the visible areas.
The only way as you said is using the Overlay (or generating a html page like I had to do).

[Joshtek]

Setting the window size to the frame size, and then making the window smaller using the Window Control object means that the whole frame is rendered. LIJI came up with the technique, and I used it in my true splitscreen example.

[Brovic]

It won't work. The print object doesn't act as expected, it just fakes a print frame but instead just does a screenshot of the visible area. I hope that will be fixed in a next upgrade.

[Joshtek]

It won't work. The print object doesn't act as expected, it just fakes a print frame but instead just does a screenshot of the visible area. I hope that will be fixed in a next upgrade.

Ah, that is how it manages to capture buttons.

[crugh]

Thanks for all the input and I hope this does get fixed in the next upgraded.

[crugh]

Load a scanned picture of the blank a4 ...save the pasted text in the overlay as a BMP and then open this in windows image previewer...printing wizard.

I'll have to play around with this workaround- though I not sure how the clear the text will show?

Thanks.