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AsciiCE2
- Fast Text Printing to ANY Ascii Printer
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The AsciiCE2 control is included with PrinterCE SDK and provides for sending and receiving ASCII text strings and blocks of data or control functions directly from Windows CE / Pocket PC devices to Ascii printers. When used with certain printers that also feature magnetic card readers or smart card readers, the AsciiCE2 control provides methods to read the data from those readers (see below)..
AsciiCE2 provides basic high-speed text output to ASCII printers, direct printer control and reading data sent from the printer, but loses the sophisticated graphics, TrueType font, object drawing and barcode printing capabilities of PrinterCE. AsciiCE2 and PrinterCE can be used simultaneously to a limited degree. AsciiCE2 functions can be accessed from eVB, and eVC (MFC/CE and C/C++).
Note: AsciiCE2 extends PrinterCE's original AsciiCE control. AsciiCE will continue to be found in PrinterCE unchanged, so all existing applications using AsciiCE will work as before. However AsciiCE2 provides every method and property of AsciiCE plus many more.
The PrinterCE demo program (PrCEDemo - download here) contains two demos of AsciiCE2 in addition to the PrinterCE demos. You can download the C++ source code and eVC project files for PrCEDemo here.
"Hello World" eVB example using AsciiCE2: This demo demonstrates the simplicity of using AsciiCE. It creates an instance of AsciiCE2, selects the infrared port, prints out "Hello World" and "Second Line", then formfeeds and closes the infrared port. Dim AscPr, success
Set AscPr = CreateObject("PrEngineCE.AsciiCE2")
'Select Ascii Printer port values
success = AscPr.SelectPort(PORT_IR, S_DONTCARE,
S_DONTCARE)
If (success = True) Then
AscPr.Text "Hello World" & vbCrLf & "Second Line"
AscPr.FormFeed
End If
AscPr.ClosePort ' Done with the port for
now
#1.
Special AsciiCE2 Topic:
[Intermixing PrinterCE and AsciiCE2]
#2.
Special AsciiCE2 Topic:
[Reading
Data from Special-Purpose Printers]