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Article #255Re: A3W: Printing with ShellExecute and MS Word
From: Jamie Stallwood
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:00
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Have you tried setting your authorware window topmost with the SetWindowPos() API? You could deteect when the PDialog appears by enumerating a list of window titles. Have a fiddle with that. On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:12:17 -0500, James D. Young scribed here: > I'm having troubles using the ShellExecute function to print documents from > Authorware using MS Word. The directions specified in Technote #3072 - > printing with ShellExecute worked great with Wordpad, but now I'm trying the > same thing with Word and am unable to hide the word application with "0" for > the Window mode parameter. I've tried it two ways to no avail: > error:=ShellExecuteA(WindowHandle, "print", "mydoc.doc", FileLocation, 0) > and > error:=ShellExecuteA(WindowHandle, "open", "c:\\program Files\\Microsoft > Office\\Office\\Winword.exe", "mydoc.doc", FileLocation, 0) > Both methods show the Word splash screen, then Word, then the document > within Word, and finally, the print dialog. I, of course, just want to see > the print dialog. Again, it worked great with Wordpad and notepad, (showing > only the print dialog, but not with Word. Anyone got any suggestions? > Thanks in advance, > James > ************************************* > James D. Young, Ph.D. > jyoung@mailer.fsu.edu > http://mailer.fsu.edu/~jyoung > > ************************************************** Jamie Stallwood Customer Support Software Engineer e: big_j@bigfoot.com p: 0117 927 6922 m: 0410 089391 f: 0117 927 6938
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f49cb,943f6543e6dece7d X-Google-Attributes: gidf49cb,public From: big_j@bigfoot.com (Jamie Stallwood) Subject: Re: A3W: Printing with ShellExecute and MS Word Date: 1997/12/13 Message-ID: <34995e49.314688538@news.dircon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 297807880 Sender: ANGate5@dircon.co.uk References: <66s25a$d42$1@news.fsu.edu> Reply-To: Jamie Stallwood <big_j@bigfoot.com> Distribution: World Organization: Jamie Stallwood, Software Consultant Newsgroups: bit.listserv.authorware