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Running PC Commands Published by: Alex Fishbein on 04 Oct 2012 view comments(5)

I am trying to run a Visual Basic program from RPG using runrmtcmd.

The VB program prints image files (JPEG).

When I run this program from PC it runs fine, but when i run it from RPG i get an error msg.

Also if anyone knows a way to print images from RPG, that would also work.

 

This is an error i am getting.

 

Unhandled Exception: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist at System.Drawing.Printing.StandardPrintController.OnStartPrint(PrintDocument document, PrintEventArgs e)  at System.Windows.Forms.PrintControllerWithStatusDialog.OnStartPrint(PrintDocument document, PrintEventArgs e) at System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController.Print(PrintDocument document)  at System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument.Print() at DirectPrint.Module1.Main()                                                   

 

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Posted by: clbirk
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Comment on: Running PC Commands
Posted: 10 years 11 months 18 days 17 hours 16 minutes ago

what are you running on the pc side, that is what is the rmtcmd calling?

 

Typically, I call a "bat" that has the exe in it. I use aaron bartell's mowyourlawn.com rpg2dt stuff that uses a job queue (and I do all sorts of things). So you can call that from within rpg. If at the cl/ocl level you can do it with of course strpccmd. As I recall, I had a few issues when the strpccmd called the program directly but no problem when I call a bat. I have maybe a dozen different dot net's that I call hundreds of times every day.

Posted by: Ringer
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Comment on: Running PC Commands
Posted: 10 years 11 months 18 days 15 hours 47 minutes ago

Not sure if this is an option for you, but if you put instead store the JPEG in a PDF on the IFS, then you could just open( ) the PDF with RPG, read( ) it, and WRITE to most printers (DEVD) as straight ASCII. Most printers now can sniff the byte stream as PDF and print it correctly.

Chris Ringer

Posted by: alexfishbein
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Comment on: Running PC Commands
Posted: 10 years 11 months 6 days 17 hours 48 minutes ago

Actually I've been going back and forth with IBM on this for weeks now. All I am trying to do is to print a style report with the image of the style. I moved all the picture into an IFS folder and created an rpg that reads the style file and creates an external printer file that I am listing bellow. When the spool file is created the image is there, but when I print it nothing comes out. 

 

     A          R HDR01                                                            

     A  20        XXJPEG       100A     2  5                                       

     A                               O  2100'CAD901PF'                             

     A                                      FONT(34123 (*POINTSIZE 4))             

     A  20        XXPATH       100A     3  5                                       

     A                               O  4  5'STYLE .:'                             

     A            XXSTY         20A     4 15                                       

     A            SMNAME        30A     4 65                                       

     A  90                           O  5  5'DOZENS :'                             

     A  90        XXDOZ          7  2   5 16EDTCDE(Q)                              

     A  90                           O  6  5'PRICE .:'                             

     A  90        XXPRIC         7  2   6 15EDTCDE(Q $)                            

     A  90                           O  7  5'CANCEL :'                             

     A  90        XXCXL          8  0   7 15EDTWRD('  /  /    ')                   

     A          R #MYLOGO                   TEXT('THUMBNAIL')                      

     A                                      AFPRSC(&MYJPEG *JFIF +                 

     A                                      1.5 8.5 (*PATH &MYPATH) +              

     A                                      (*SIZE 8.00 8.80) +                    

     A                                      (*ROTATION 90) +                       

     A                                      (*MAPOPT *ST))                         

     A            MYJPEG       100A  P                                             

     A            MYPATH       300A  P                                              

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Comment on: Running PC Commands
Posted: 10 years 11 months 6 days 12 hours 50 minutes ago

Check your PC printer configuration. Is it ASCII? Do you have HOST Transform set on? Is the printer an AFP or IPDS printer device? etc.

 

Posted by: alexfishbein
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Comment on: Running PC Commands
Posted: 10 years 11 months 6 days 12 hours 9 minutes ago

We're using an HP Color LazerJet printer. Host transform is set to yes. I think the printer is AFP