Re: Printer properties

Article View: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi

Article #7916

Back to borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi Previous Next

#7916

From: Bob Gonder
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:33

23 lines
1752 bytes

Thomas J. wrote:

>How can I get the ACTUAL printer properties.
>For example:
>I start my application read the properties like width and height of a page
>and the values are fine.
>If I now change the printer setting via printer setup of windows like width
>and height and read again the properties of the printer I get still the old
>properties.

1)
Do you leave the printer open or do you ClosePrinter() ?
Do you check the return value from DocumentProperties() for errors?

2)
Don't do that (use external windows printer setup).
Instead, do it from your program with PrintDlg() with the
PD_PRINTSETUP flag.
PrintDlg() returns the settings in the DEVMODE.

It might be if you ask Windows for a new DEVMODE that it will go back
to the original values, so keep and use the one returned from PrintDlg

Technical Details

Message-ID: <6ro0s0pgsjn6kr7lnhkb68gtfkr2g0glm2@4ax.com>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail

References: <41bfe84c$1@newsgroups.borland.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,6620db7697e43cb9
X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
From: Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi
Subject: Re: Printer properties
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:33:55 -0800
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
Reply-To: notbg@notmindspring.invalid
Message-ID: <6ro0s0pgsjn6kr7lnhkb68gtfkr2g0glm2@4ax.com>
References: <41bfe84c$1@newsgroups.borland.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.77.147.211
X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1103128433 67.77.147.211 (15 Dec 2004 08:33:53 -0800)
Lines: 25
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail

Reply to Parent Message