First Prigramming Assiment (qbasic)

Blazer06 · August 30th, 2003, 08:50 PM

My first project was to make a program in qbasic that will open a file with inventory records, and display the records, the on hand amount, value amount, on order amount and decription, and calculate the totals. This is what i got: (including comments)
BTW, the code didnt exactly copy and paste right..... so some of it may look weird.

***I got it to work thanks to rob riches code.....***

I need to make the program print if the person wants it to. I tried just copying the code and changeing print to lprint, but it doesnt work??

Any ideas?

Blaze

qball · August 31st, 2003, 01:02 AM

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DRIVER J.R. · August 31st, 2003, 05:34 AM

qball you are so rude!

Blazer06 · August 31st, 2003, 08:53 AM

DBL Post

Blaze

Blazer06 · August 31st, 2003, 08:55 AM

qball, i didnt want others to do it for me, but to give me ideas on how i coul get my program to print.

I know my home work thats why I said ANY IDEAS not can somebody please make this work?

Please dont crap my thread.

My teacher told us that we can go out and ask for help. Because were ASKING not having otehrs do it. I dont nesiccarily want a full how to answer, just an idea of what i have to do. My teacher explained, that never would i have a job or project that i couldnt ask for help with, its not like im asking from point one "where do i begin" im asking "ideas to print since lprint isnt working..."

The code is there so people can see what im talking about and how the lprint doest work, because im not really good at explaining things.

Blaze

qball · August 31st, 2003, 10:55 PM

Blazer06,

my bad, not trying to crap thread, trying to help.

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My teacher told us that we can go out and ask for help.

fair enough.

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The code is there so people can see what im talking about and how the lprint doest work, because im not really good at explaining things.

MrFreeze · September 1st, 2003, 08:07 AM

don't know for qbasic, but in powerbasic i used the following

open "lpt1:" for output as #1
print #1,"hello world"
close #1

qball · September 3rd, 2003, 12:37 AM

MrFreeze,

just to be a wisearse, but, does that work with USB printers?

**RobRich** · September 3rd, 2003, 01:21 AM

Well, this code example should work perfectly fine for all printers, USB included. Windows platform only, of course.

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DATAFILE$ = "TEST.TXT"
OPEN DATAFILE$ FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1, "Data "
CLOSE #1

SHELL "start /m wordpad /p TEST.TXT"

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The SHELL command is the key to your situation. You can save the output data into a text file, then simply use WordPad with the /p convention to print the file. This should work with any printers installed to Windows.

I'll let you work out the other details, like storing the various pieces of data into the text file with the PRINT command.

BTW, it has been years since I've worked with Qbasic, so I am using the assumption that these commands will work, if my memory proves accurate.

Robert Richmond

MrFreeze · September 3rd, 2003, 03:42 AM

as for usb printers, probably not, i dont have one to test it, google gives me:

1. Set the printer up and print a test page from Windows XP - Just to be sure.
2. Share the printer - like \\rod\usbprinter
3. Then use the printer - net use lpt3: \\rod\usbprinter

MrFreeze