Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:21:37 01/09/03
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On January 09, 2003 at 10:44:26, Joshua Haglund wrote: >On January 09, 2003 at 05:10:08, Joshua Haglund wrote: > >>I would like to print the output of a chess engine directly from the engine. >> >>Say for example: >> >>Crafty implemented the ability to print to a printer. >> >> >>Crafty v20.1 (1 cpus) >> >> >> >> >> >>White(1): board >> >> >> >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> 8 | *R| | | | | | *K| | >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> 7 | B | *P| | | | *P| *P| *P| >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> 6 | | | *N| *P| | | *Q| | >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> 5 | | | | | | | | | >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> 4 | | | | | | | | | >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> 3 | P | | | | | Q | | | >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> 2 | | P | P | | | P | P | P | >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> 1 | R | | | | *R| | K | | >> +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ >> a b c d e f g h >> >> >> >>White(1): print >> >>Looking for printer... >> >>BJC-4304 found... >> >>Printing... >>Page 1 of 1 >>Done. >> >>White(1): >> >>Now the board above would have printed too my printer. >> >>I want to do this in C++ though. I've looked everywhere and even asked an >>instructor(bad) how to accomplish this? >> >>No clue. >> >>Looking for some help, >> >>Joshua >>toneewa@yahoo.com > >#include <iostream> >What else? open a stream to your printer device. If it is a network printer you have a _lot_ of work to do. Even if it isn't, you have to deal with different types of printers. I would use the html output code in Crafty and then figure out how to execute a process that can print html.
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