Sending characters to Olivetti PR2 RS232 dotmatrix printer
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:53 pm
Greetings,
I have a printer that works in Olivetti PR2 emulation. It is connected to COM4 port on Windows.
Following commands work from Windows CLI.
Printing works via Print dialogue in PureBasic as well, however...
Is there a possibility to "emulate" commands above, since printer than works in native mode and not (very slow and nonflexible) graphics mode when I print it via Print library in PB? Can I use StartPrinting() function with some "native" mode for such dot-matrix printers?
BTW, i CANNOT access COM4 port from PB's commands...
Thank you in advance,
Bruno
Edit: I tried something like this, but compiler crushes...
WriteFile_ part seems to be the one causing the error.
Solution
http://www.purebasic.fr/german/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1152
I have a printer that works in Olivetti PR2 emulation. It is connected to COM4 port on Windows.
Following commands work from Windows CLI.
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set /p x="some text" <nul >\\.\COM4
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type somefile.txt >\\.\COM4
Is there a possibility to "emulate" commands above, since printer than works in native mode and not (very slow and nonflexible) graphics mode when I print it via Print library in PB? Can I use StartPrinting() function with some "native" mode for such dot-matrix printers?
BTW, i CANNOT access COM4 port from PB's commands...
Thank you in advance,
Bruno
Edit: I tried something like this, but compiler crushes...
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txt.s = "0123456789"
hndl.i = CreateFile_("\\.\COM4", #GENERIC_ALL, #FILE_SHARE_READ, #Null, #OPEN_EXISTING, #Null, #Null)
WriteFile_(hndl, @txt, Len(txt), #Null, #Null)
CloseHandle_(hndl)
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: PureBasic_Compilation0.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 5ad88724
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.23915
Fault Module Timestamp: 59b94f2a
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000001b54
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1050
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Solution
http://www.purebasic.fr/german/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1152