Fred... Printer?

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Kanati.

What's the status on printer support? I'm writing a DLL with PowerBasic which
I bought the other day... Was QUITE surprised at the language similarities btw.
But if you are planning a release here before too long with the printer library
that we were told was gonna be in 2.90 I'm gonna forget about it. Otherwise I'm
gonna finish the dll for blitz and convert it to a standard no-blitz-poop-
interface-memory-block-crap dll for use with PureBasic (what is it with all of
these BASIC languages with ZERO printer support btw? It's insane that an output
device that is nearly essential for app programming isn't supported directly by
the language... I can see it more readily with game based languages like blitz
and Darkbasic, but not powerbasic and purebasic...)

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.


Printer lib is planned for v3.0. Anyway, you can port your dll to use with PureBasic, not a problem. What kind of similarities PowerBasic has with PureBasic ? I've tested the demo version and it looks old fashioned (but powerful, that's it).

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

Fred, I once suggested that you have a work-in-progress page on your web site,
detailing everything that's being fixed and worked on... if you did this, then
perhaps we'd see a lot less of the "when is blah blah" posts here...


PB - Registered PureBasic Coder

Edited by - PB on 15 February 2002 20:41:44
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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Kanati.

And speaking of "when is blah blah"... When is 3.00 tentatively scheduled for release? :)

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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> When is 3.00 tentatively scheduled for release?

Fred said about two months in another post (from now).


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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by TronDoc.
Fred, I once suggested that you have a work-in-progress page...
PB
I concur....it would save you valuable programming time! -jb
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