On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 08:20:13PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 04:43:12PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote: > > Several different things are polymorphically called print. How do I send > > text to a peripheral printer? I found the menu item "Send contents to > > printer" and it produced walkback which says > > "MessageNotUnderstood: SmalltalkEditor>sendContentsToPrinter". Printer > > setup similarly failed yet after the OS supplied the customary sound that > > the printer was hooked up. > > > > This occurred in Squeak 4.5 under Windows 7. What would solve the problem > > best? Upgrading Squeak? Getting a different printer? Going back to > > Digitalk Smalltalk/V and a dot matrix ribbon printer where it did work > > years ago? > > Hi Kirk, > > That MessageNotUnderstood is a bug for sure. I'm surprised nobody spotted > the MNU until now; I suspect that it has been broken for quite a while. > > I'm afraid that this is negected functionality. As a workaround, there are > various ways to export to files which can then be printed. The contents of > a workspace can be exported to a text file, and any morph can exported in > various ways (included postscript) by means of the tools button in morph > halo menus (yellow click on any morph). >
Sorry, I guess that would be the blue button (not yellow) that brings up the morph halos. Dave _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list [email protected] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
