Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:30:34 -0300 From: madodel at ptdprolog.net Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: TextHelper ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Don Hawkinson" TextHelper is simple editor based on the MultiLineEditor class from the IBM Open Class Library. I have added some text manipulation functions and support for printing on HP Deskjet and Lazerjet printers. TextHelper is not intended to replace E or EPM or any functional editor. Its value is mainly the ability to print in Landscape or Portrait mode, in 12 cpi or 16.5 cpi or proportional, in 6 lpi or 8 lpi, with or without line numbers, with or without a 3 hole punch margin, and in any combination of those options. This is an early beta copy of TextHelper and this file is all the documentation that is available. Most of the features and functions of the program should be obvious. But if you really believe that , I have a couple of large bridges for sale. One feature that is not obvious is a special file naming option. If you highlight or mark a descriptive phrase and then select Save As under the file menu, the marked text will be used as the file name. This only works if your drives are formatted as HPFS. I have the print options working. The program expects you to be sending the printing to a printer that is HP PCL 3 compatible. If your printer works with DJPrint, it should work with TextHelper. If the text loaded into TextHelper does not have hard coded line wrapping or has been de-wrpped, you can format the text for printing by changing the size of the TextHelper window and the size of the display font. The font size will not be used by your printer, but the length of the displayed lines will be used when the text is printed. Sort of wysiwyg printing. This allows you to use the word wrapping of TextHelper to format the text for printing. The word wrapping is a part of the IBM Open Class Library and will not be a part of DJPrint I have not added the header and pagination formatting to TextHelper because I was not sure if would be used. Let me know what you think. I am interested in bug reports, comments on how the TextHelper works or doesn't work, and suggestions for functions and improvements. I can give you an example on using TextHelper. 1: Load TH.TXT (this file) into TextHelper 2: Mark the numbered section and select CUT from the edit menu. 3: Open new copy of TextHelper 4: Paste the printer list into the new copy of TextHelper. You could skip steps 3 & 4 and leave the text in the Clipboard 5: Now select De-wrapping under the Edit menu. This turns off word wrapping, so it must be reselected under the Options/Display menu. You will also need to change the font to System Proportional size 10 6: Restore the cut text. 7: Now resize the horizontal dimention of the TextHelper window and then press F6 to get the size of the longest line after wrapping. 8: Repeat step 7 until longest line is 116 to 119 characters. 9: Under the Options/Printer menu: select compresed print, 3 hole punch margin,Portrait mode, and the desired printer 10: Select Print under the File menu. The program may be downloaded at: http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/th.zip -- Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6-9 http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe 2005 - Dresden, Germany, Nov. 18-20 http://www.warpstock.net [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news your.email.address at here end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org or go to http://www.os2voice.org/fSubNews.html . Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org