[duxuser] Re: entering escape codes
- From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:50:53 -0400
Howard,
I have two little programmes I wrote back in the days of DOS which send some
ASCII to a printer buffer at work to switch it from the ink printer to the
VersaPoint embosser. I made a shortcut for each on the desktop so my
part-time sighted assistants can easily select one or the other. I wish I
was clever enough to make the shortcut change colour or something when
clicked so it would be obvious which was active or preferably have the
facility to insert the ASCII codes directly into a DBT template or something
so that any time emboss is activated they would automatically be sent. Maybe
some way of inserting them at the beginning of the document directly. I do
this with a text editor in DOS by inserting the characters into a Hot Dots
translated document.
In fairness, print operations in Windows don't permit it either.
The programmes were written in a compiled form of BASIC, just an LPRINT
statement terminated with a semicolon so there is no carriage return.
I don't know if they would run under XP though, haven't had occasion to try
a 16 bit application yet.
----- Original Message -----
From: Howard Traxler
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 6:53 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: entering escape codes
I'd like to set the juliet to a graphic mode, send a picture, then set it
back to normal text. When I used DOS, there was some editor that allowed
you to use alt with numbers on the numpad to put in control codes--like
the
escape, ascii 27.
My thought is that I have to write a program to set graphic mode and to
set
text mode. I've done that for the versapoint. Don't know if that would
work through a network. I may have to set graphic mode on the embosser's
keypad. That means I'd have to remember the keystrokes. haha.
Howard
At 05:41 AM 9/14/2004, George Bell wrote:
>Hi Howard,
>
>I'm afraid you can't insert escape sequences into a
>document.
>
>What are you trying to achieve? Perhaps there's a way round
>it.
>
>George.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard
>Traxler
> > Sent: 14 September 2004 11:36
> > To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [duxuser] entering escape codes
> >
> > Hi all,
> > Does anyone know how to enter escape codes into a duxbury
>document?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Howard
> >
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