Gambas ONE

Did you not consider using the ppa? Keep your Gambas up to date: - Gambas3 Stable sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gambas-team/gambas3 && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install gambas3 Gambas3 Daily Build sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gambas-team/gambas-daily && sudo a...

Thanks Bruce. I'll check this out tomorrow.

EDIT 20/08/2023

That's done it! Thanks.

My camera produces up to 10Meg photos. I have discovered that FileChooser refuses to display a preview of large images. I can get the image into a PictureBox , but if I want to display many at once, the amount of memory used can cause my PC to lock up! If I reduce the size of the photos to less than...

I'm not in league with the great coders on this forum. So if anyone would like to improve on this code, make it more logical, make it even easier for anyone to plug it into their own applications as a replacement for Message(), I welcome it and look forward to it. Well, you asked! I hope I have sim...

Well, here is my effort regarding this one, I hope it helps. This has not been tested on Wayland.

Check out the last post in this section A challenge for you. Also see if lpstat -p -d on the command line sees your printer.

EDIT 05/08/23
It would be helpful to know what size label you are wanting to print on. (e.g. 50x25mm)

how about the Picture method i first spoke of... Thanks, but I have managed to get Gambas to work with a Zebra Thermal Printer using gb.cairo to create a pdf document of 2" x 1" which I put in the /tmp folder. I can then print it by shelling the lp command. For iLoop = 1 To SliderBoxCopie...

Thank you, Bruce. I am looking at your code. It certainly contains one or two nifty bits of code I need to get my head around.

I was hoping this type of question might persuade a few more to contribute, so if you have another solution, let us see it!

I wanted to create 3 lines of text for a label (2" x 1" or 50mm x 25mm). The text should contain only complete words on each line and no longer than 20 characters. The string supplied could be anything from 3 to hundreds of characters. Excessive characters can be ignored. The code I came u...

This may help.

Public Sub Form_Open()

  Wait 5
  Shell "notify-send IMPORTANT! 'IMPORTANT message'"
  Message("IMPORTANT\n\nImportant message", "OK")

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