How can I find out if a printer is connected or not

[pmscraiova]

How can I find out if a printer is connected or not to the computer? VisualFox commands Sys(13) return 'READY' and Printstatus() return .T. even if a printer is not connected to my computer.
Thank you,
Eugen

 

[rgbean]

Eugen,
If you mean physically, there isn't a way to do it natively in VFP. Sys(13) and Printstatus() are left over functions from FoxPro for DOS and are strictly for backward compatibility syntax - not functionality.

In Windows you almost always go through a print queue (spooler) in on your local system, which is always there, and it up to Windows to check on the printer's real status.

While you can make a Windows API call to check on this, it's not as straight forward as the DOS way of doing things!

Rick