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To all,

JD has reminded of the solution:

    char Device[ 256 ] = { 0 };
    char Driver[ 256 ] = { 0 };
    char Port[ 256 ] = { 0 };
    THandle hDeviceMode;

    Printer()->PrinterIndex = pIndex;
    Printer()->GetPrinter( Device, Driver, Port, hDeviceMode );

Thanx.

"Anthony" <endurokarter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3f148037@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Gambit,
>
> To answer your questions:
>
> I was getting the wrong page sizes with:
> (A)
> Printers()->PrinterIndex=x;
> width=GetDeviceCaps(Printers()->Handle, PHYSICALWIDTH);
>
> which was corrected when I did:
> (B)
> HDC HPrinterDC = CreateDC(NULL, Device.c_str(), NULL, pdm);
> width=GetDeviceCaps(HPrinterDC, PHYSICALWIDTH);
>
> or:
> (C)
> HDC HPrinterDC = CreateIC(NULL, Device.c_str(), NULL, pdm);
> width=GetDeviceCaps(HPrinterDC, PHYSICALWIDTH);
>
> which lead me to notice that the Handle returned by (A) was not the same
as
> returned by (B) or (C) when accessing a printer that is other than the
> default printer.
>
> I tried CreateDC because in was already coded from an example I was lead
to
> by another poster Vladimir.  I tried both for the heck of it; what's the
> difference?
>
>
> The application:
>
> The application needs to print on three different printers, one is
portrait
> letter text , the second is landscape letter graphic, and the third (where
> the problem is most obvious) prints on one of three sizes of continuous
feed
> address labels.  The first two are laser or bubble jet printers, the third
> is a dot matrix printer with tractor feed.
>
> And the problem:  (which I have spent the better part of the week on)
>
> I have the first two woking fine, but the problem started when I was
trying
> to get the page size for the label printer using (A) from above.  I
finally
> was able to get the page size corrected using GetDeviceCaps if I manually
> changed the default printer (which isn't practical in the end
application).
>
> The issue of having the wrong handle was masked by the fact that I was
> selecting and printing to the correct printer but on the wrong size paper.
> So, prior to realizing the handle was wrong I figured that the page size
was
> not getting from the printer settings to GetDeviceCaps and starting
looking
> for a way to set the page size in the program.
>
> Now that I know the TPrinter::Handle is wrong, can (A) be fixed or do I
have
> to go with (B) or (C)?
>
> Thank you for your time.
> Anthony
>
>
>
> "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3f147649$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> >
> > "Anthony" <awhitesell@attbi.com> wrote in message
> > news:3f1471c0$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> >
> > > I can use both
> > >
> > >    HDC HPrinterDC = CreateDC(NULL, Device.c_str(), NULL, pdm);
> > > and
> > >    HDC HPrinterDC = CreateIC(NULL, Device.c_str(), NULL, pdm);
> >
> > I didn't say to use CreateDC().  That is a different matter.
> >
> > > and get the correct page sizes.
> >
> > What does page sizes have to do with anything?  You said you were
> receiving
> > the same HDC when using Printer()->Handle?  Or did I misread what you
said
> > originally?  Please clearify EXACTLY what you are trying to do and what
> > EXACTLY is not working correctly.
> >
> >
> > Gambit
> >
> >
>
>