Printer preferences

[Mrall]

I know that I can select which printer to use by
SET PRINTER TO NAME GETPRINTER()

Is there a good routine or method to use to set all the preferences like what word or just about any other program does.

Thanks

 

[Nigel Gomm]

report form ...... to printer prompt

will cause the printer dialog to appear and that has the printer preferences button and dialog.

if you want to call the page setup direct (and remember what was chosen see sys(1037) and its variants in the help guide.)

or, if printing from for instance the tx text control, you can use the windows API.


DECLARE INTEGER OpenPrinter IN winspool.drv;
STRING pPrinterName, INTEGER @phPrinter, INTEGER pDefault

DECLARE INTEGER ClosePrinter IN winspool.drv INTEGER hPrinter

DECLARE INTEGER DocumentProperties IN winspool.drv;
INTEGER HWND, INTEGER hPrinter, STRING pDeviceName,;
STRING @pDevModeOutput, STRING @pDevModeInput, INTEGER fMode


but that means messing about with the devmode structure which is not for the faint-hearted.

hth

Nigel

 

[Mrall]

I discovered this link has a routine the does everything

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1538957

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Mrall,

If you refering to the post I made, the only problem with that method is the printer name (or device name) is limited to 32 characters. I have since corrected that, and made into a class, you can find it here.

http://www.atoutfox.org/articles.asp?ACTION=FCONSULTER&ID=0000000797

Mike Gagnon

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