The code that creates the Windows form with the printer button in Win2k, xp and 2003 is:

Sys(1037) but in Vista and Win7 there is no printer button?? why is that? supposedly it prevents a bug?

I found one solution here:

http://blog.moxiedata.com/PermaLink,guid,ba1f3061-a387-4faf-81a5-2cf8d6f520ab.aspx

it did not work on XP

My test on a Win7 laptop did not work either but it does not have a 'real' printer defined.

Barbara Peisch posted a work-around using the DocumentProperties()

http://www.foxite.com/archives/sys1037-not-having-printers-button-0000158197.htm

these references are related to using the new report writer. That is nice, but we need to print a plain text file also

without using the new report writer.

----- Original Message -----

From: "Dan Covill" <dcovill@san.rr.com>

To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com>

Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 7:46 PM

Subject: Re: VFP9 SP2 printer api call question

On 2/4/2011 4:02 PM, kamcginnis@gmail.com wrote:

> I hope I can explain this so it makes sense.

>

> I have a wrapper for Windows printer API calls

>

> 1 will select a printer.

>

> 2 will allow you to change settings like the paper cartridge. On Win2k, xp and 2003, this screen also has a button to

> change the printer that is missing on Vista and Win7. Why did they do that??

>

> This means clients with Vista and Win7 must select the printer before going to the screen to change the settings. I

> don't do this often enough to be aware of the difference (or care), but we just got the 20th (my guess) user complaint

> calling to ask what happened and they want me to put the printer selection back.

>

> I used to do things like that 30 years ago when I programmed in assembler, but that is water under the bridge for me

> and I am not going back there.

>

> Anyone know of any other printer api call documentation somewhere that I can experiment with?

Easy enough to select a printer in VFP. mPrinterName = GETPRINTER().

To find out what the current printer is,

mPrinterName = set("Printer",2) default Windows printer

mPrinterName = set("Printer",3) default VFP printer (same?)

I don't use API calls, but you should be able to feed in the Printer

name ok.

Dan Covill

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