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Message no. 1
From: paolo@*********.it (Paolo Marcucci)
Subject: The SRCG and the print thing
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:39:43 +0100
Ok. As I've already said, I can't figure out how to make character sheets
come out directly from the SRCG program. But when you save a character in
the .npc file, you already have all the things you need there, stats, gear
and so on.

So, can a merciful soul help me with an off-line character printer program?

Thanks, Paolo
____________________________________________________________
Paolo Marcucci paolo@*********.it
InterWare Service Provider Trieste, Italy
http://www.interware.it/ Tel. +39-40-411400
Message no. 2
From: MikeE@******.dragonsys.com
Subject: The SRCG and the print thing -Reply
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:13:59 -0500
Paolo wrote:
>So, can a merciful soul help me with an off-line
>character printer program?

Although I'm a bit too busy to commit to this kind
of thing, I do know of a way to do it simply:
someone could create a Microsoft Word
template of a character sheet, with the character
specific details as Form Fields. Name the fields
something human readable like "Body" instead of
"Text4". Now you can write a WordBasic macro
that reads a .NPC file (Use the
GetPrivateProfileString$() function, Paolo was
very clever in using the .INI file format for his
characters) and writes it out to a document
based on the word template (using
SetFormResult()).

Presto, you can use the power of Word to
format your character sheet any way you want,
while the tedious and error prone job of filling it
in has been done for you by the macro!

If someone wants, I can create a template that
has the first few fields in it, just to show someone
how it's done, but after that I don't have time to
finish it.

Double-Domed Mike
Message no. 3
From: paolo@*********.it (Paolo Marcucci)
Subject: Re: The SRCG and the print thing -Reply
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 19:45:18 +0100
At 13.13 27/03/96 -0500, MikeE@******.dragonsys.com wrote:

>If someone wants, I can create a template that
>has the first few fields in it, just to show someone
>how it's done, but after that I don't have time to
>finish it.

Very nice idea.

Only thing, I have no idea of what a word macro is :)

I mean, I know what they are, but I've never used them for something. Just
sketch a template and I will look into it for the development.

Bye, Paolo
____________________________________________________________
Paolo Marcucci paolo@*********.it
InterWare Service Provider Trieste, Italy
http://www.interware.it/ Tel. +39-40-411400
Message no. 4
From: "A. Blair Blackwell" <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: The SRCG and the print thing -Reply
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:14:10 -0500
At 13:13 3/27/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Paolo wrote:
>>So, can a merciful soul help me with an off-line
>>character printer program?
>
>Although I'm a bit too busy to commit to this kind
>of thing, I do know of a way to do it simply:
>someone could create a Microsoft Word
>template of a character sheet, with the character
>specific details as Form Fields. Name the fields
>something human readable like "Body" instead of
>"Text4". Now you can write a WordBasic macro
>that reads a .NPC file (Use the
>GetPrivateProfileString$() function, Paolo was
>very clever in using the .INI file format for his
>characters) and writes it out to a document
>based on the word template (using
>SetFormResult()).
>
>Presto, you can use the power of Word to
>format your character sheet any way you want,
>while the tedious and error prone job of filling it
>in has been done for you by the macro!
>
>If someone wants, I can create a template that
>has the first few fields in it, just to show someone
>how it's done, but after that I don't have time to
>finish it.
>
>Double-Domed Mike
>
>
Whoopie!!!!!!

I hate Word and use Word Perfect. (Word Perfect hates Word too.)
Doesn't help people like me much does it?

BLAIR
Message no. 5
From: lewis@**.edu.au (Gavin Lewis)
Subject: Re: The SRCG and the print thing -Reply
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:23:38 +0800
>Paolo wrote:
>>So, can a merciful soul help me with an off-line
>>character printer program?
>
>Although I'm a bit too busy to commit to this kind
>of thing, I do know of a way to do it simply:
>someone could create a Microsoft Word
^^^^^^^^^
PLEASE DONT USE SUCH FOUL LANGUAGE!!!!! ;)

>template of a character sheet, with the character
>specific details as Form Fields. Name the fields

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Message no. 6
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: The SRCG and the print thing
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:49:41 +0100
Paolo Marcucci said on 27 Mar 96...

> Ok. As I've already said, I can't figure out how to make character sheets
> come out directly from the SRCG program. But when you save a character in
> the .npc file, you already have all the things you need there, stats, gear
> and so on.
>
> So, can a merciful soul help me with an off-line character printer program?

If you've written it in Visual Basic (I believe you have, yes?), it
shouldn't be too hard. Just use

Printer.Print [stuff you want to print out, just as with regular the Print
command]

and when you're done with that, give

Printer.EndDoc

At least, that works for me. This, BTW, is also the reason why my matrix
host generator won't print -- I only found out about the printer.enddoc
last week :) If it's not used, Windows seems to keep waiting for the rest
of the document to come and so doesn't dump it to the printer just yet.

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Message no. 7
From: cobaltblue@********.net
Subject: RE: The SRCG and the print thing
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 08:59:00 PST
On Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:39:43 +0100 Paolo Marcucci wrote:
>Ok. As I've already said, I can't figure out how to make character sheets
>come out directly from the SRCG program. But when you save a character in
>the .npc file, you already have all the things you need there, stats, gear
>and so on.
>
>So, can a merciful soul help me with an off-line character printer program?
>
>Thanks, Paolo
>____________________________________________________________
> Paolo Marcucci paolo@*********.it
> InterWare Service Provider Trieste, Italy
> http://www.interware.it/ Tel. +39-40-411400
>

With your blessing, I would like to upload the prog to some people I know at MIT who
like fixing code for fun.

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