Re: [MacPerl] Error in parameter list

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 9:59 -0400 2000.09.27, Eric Rainey wrote:
>I've given up on $browser->print(filepath) in NN and IE 4.5, they
>just don't seem to work right, oh well.

Again, it worked for me in Netscape Communicator 4.75.  Dunno why.


>$browser->print works OK in IE 5, (i've only tried it for one file,
>though), but I still have to click the OK in print dialog.  Anyway
>around this?

Yes.  I don't know what it is, but there is a scripting addition that can
dismiss dialog windows.


>for my $winder(@windows) {
>
>	$IE->printbrowserwindow($winder);
>
>	die ("nope! $^E") if ($^E);
>
>}
>
>And it does load up all the pages fine, but nothing prints, and I get
>this error:
>
># # nope! Error in parameter list / Not an existing volume, and no
>default volume / Bad positioning information / Bad drive number (OS
>error -50), <IN> chunk 1.
>File 'Pulp:werken:projects:masterpiece:db :applescript:printem.pl'; Line 43

Well, this works for me:

#!perl -wl
use URI;
use Mac::Glue;
use strict;

my $ie = new Mac::Glue 'Internet Explorer';
$ie->ERRORS(sub {
    my @err = @_;
    die "$err[2]\-\>$err[3](@err[6..$#err]) error $err[5]: $err[4]\n";
});

$ie->closeallwindows;

for my $file (map { new URI "Bourque:Desktop Folder:$_.html" } qw(a b)) {
    $file =~ s/:/\//g;
    $ie->openurl("file:///$file", towindow => 0);
}

$ie->activate;

my @windows = $ie->listwindows;
for my $window (@windows) {
    $ie->printbrowserwindow($window);
}

Note that if I don't put in $ie->activate, I get the same error you get:

# Internet Explorer->printbrowserwindow(DOBJ 165) error -50: Error in
parameter list / Not an existing volume, and no default volume / Bad
positioning information / Bad drive number (OS error -50)


I am guessing IE wants to be in front when you do this.


>Which, incidentally, is the same error I get were I to try to print
>each window immediately after opening it.  I'm guessing that perhaps
>this error is being generated because the page isn't yet done loading
>before it's trying to print; is there any way to cause either the
>script or IE to wait until the page is done loading before trying to
>print?  (Short of course an actual sleep() call, which is eventually
>doomed to failure and inefficiency).

Maybe it is the same thing; IE wants to be in front.  I don't think the
page has yet to load in.  I put a sleep(5) in and still got the same error.
Just call activate() and see if it works.

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