>>Hi all,
>>
>>I need to send hexidecimal commands to an Epson LQ-570e dotmatrix printer in order to print a barcode on a document. Just trying to send the commands with
?? 0x1B 0x28 0x42
gives a syntax error. Do I need to set up ASCII variables and use
TRANSFORM(variable, format)
to get VFP to send hex codes? Will just assigning a hex value to a variable
local lnPrintBarCodeCmd
>>lnPrintBarCodeCmd = '0x1B 0x28 0x42'
>>?? lnPrintBarCodeCmd
give me what I need?
>>
>>Hacking away....TIA
>
>Try
??? CHR(0x1B) + CHR(0x28) + CHR(0x42)
Remember, that it wouldn't work if you print thru Windows driver because it will discard all none printable characters.
The whole document is formatted using
?? "string" +var+ "string" at position, font, style
running under VFP6, Win98, networked printer. I thought that since I was sending line commands to the printer, that sending the appropriate printer commands would work as well. I'll find out later. Thanks.
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