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How to send binary data to lpt1?
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From
02/03/1998 19:33:53
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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28/02/1998 18:25:57
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00081203
Message ID:
00082191
Views:
35
>>M$ has solved this nice in Office 97, but then it uses Unicode anyime it lik es >, and VFP doesn't. Maybe we could use some API to do it? > >Dragan, have you studied the structure of a windows font file? >It would be possible to make copy of this file, change >name e.q. Arial to some other and >move some othger scipt to English codepage place. >Then you can select it from foxpro. >It seems to be only solution. Do you know, is >the structure of font file available somewhere? >Or are such fonts available? There are fonts from Win 3.11 CE - they had 1250 versions of some Arial, Courier and Times New Roman. Funny, they didn't have cyrillic, but Hungarian Win3.11 had it (?). Extracting such fonts from current multipage fonts seems to be a step back to me - single codepage fonts existed in 3.11, and are abandoned with the advent of W95. OTOH, many of the apps available know how to extract desired codepage from a multipage font. I think there must be some API call which does that, and I'll write this into my to-do list (with a pretty low priority, though, because if VFP6 will be Unicode, then why bother). Besides, carrying fonts around is not what I find fit for a W95 app - most of the apps function without introducing their own fonts, right? Anyway, I've succeeded in one thing: I run regedit \w95\cp1250.reg from my autoexec.bat, and there's an option to run cp1251 instead. I've tried the conditional #defines in form's init I've described yesterday, and voila! it works - my labels show in cyrillic after recompile, and in latinic again after another boot and recompile, and so does the status bar. What doesn't work is form's caption - there's simply no way to tell W95 to use any particular codepage for this, and it obviously doesn't use system's codepage. Here's the cp1251.reg, if you want to try: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\Nls\Codepage] "1250"="cp_1250.nls" "1251"="cp_1251.nls" "1252"="cp_1252.nls" "1253"="" "1254"="" "1255"="" "1256"="" "1257"="" "1361"="" "437"="cp_437.nls" "737"="" "775"="" "850"="cp_850.nls" "852"="cp_852.nls" "857"="" "855"="" "862"="" "864"="" "866"="" "869"="" "874"="" "932"="" "936"="" "949"="" "950"="" "20866"="cp_20866.nls" "28592"="cp_28592.nls" "28593"="cp_28593.nls" "28594"="cp_28594.nls" "28597"="cp_28597.nls" "ACP"="1251" "OEMCP"="850" Just prior to booting with such a .reg file, make sure you have all the .nls files really installed - once I was missing the cp_852.nls, and the machine hung up in a most misterious way, leaving desktop designed by Picasso.

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