Hi Srdjan,
Yes, I tried set printer to, both in vfp and outside, by hand, no problem if it was outside vfp. That is why I went with the solution that I did. VFP's setting of the default print was not being recongized by the OS.
Beth
>Hi Beth,
>Did you try what Sergey advised you ?
>set printer to name (whatever)
>and then check that VFP actually recognised it as selected printer ?
>
>I never tried (needed) API/shell solution for this, but would assume that
>if you change selected printer outside VFP (via API/Shell) then you should also let VFP know about it.
>
>
>>
>>Yes, I resolved this, by changing my code to call windows API:
>>
>> lOCAL lcDefaultprinter, oWSHNet
>> lcDefaultprinter = SET("Printer", 2)
>> oWSHNet = CREATEOBJECT('Wscript.Network')
>>
>> oWSHNet.SetDefaultPrinter("Acrobat PDFWriter")
>>
>> oWSHNet.SetDefaultPrinter( lcDefaultprinter)
>>
>> oWSHNet.SetDefaultPrinter(gaPrinters(lnPos,1))
>>
>>
>>
>>HTH
>>Beth
>>
>>>Hi Beth,
>>>
>>>Did you resolve this problem? I'm having the exact same issue and have been going crazy trying to figure out a solution.
>>>
>>>TIA!
>>>-Kevin