Printing Machine

Tuxion · Post by **Tuxion** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:44 am

Hi, sorry about my bad English.

I would like to know if there is a way to program a function to use the printing machine.

pgimeno · Post by **pgimeno** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 1:29 pm

Can you explain what you mean by printing machine?

Because this is a printing machine

Do you meant a typewriter effect, where the text appears letter by letter instead of all at a time?

Tuxion · Post by **Tuxion** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 2:25 pm

Sorry i don't know how to say it in english but it's look like that:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... rinter.jpg

zorg · Post by **zorg** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:36 pm

So you want to use the printer... not sure if there's an easy solution available.

Xugro · Post by **Xugro** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:44 pm

You could use another program to do the printing for you. On Windows you could use Wordpad to print by command. For this you have to save your Text-File and then use

os.execute("write /p filename")

(See the Lua OS Library Tutorial for more information for os.execute().)

The advantage of using Wordpad over Notepad is Wordpads support for Rich-Text-Format (RTF). In RTF you can use bold, italics and even images (How to add images to RTF-Files with code). This should be enough to write a simple Word-Processor on Windows.

pedrosgali · Post by **pedrosgali** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:44 pm

I was wondering what that command was in Lua, in python it's

os.startfile(dir_path, "print")

I will use this in the future