Author: Joshua Haglund
Date: 22:48:28 01/09/03
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I'm probably better off making a .log_file of some_sort. Joshua toneewa@yahoo.com On January 09, 2003 at 11:21:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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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