Thanks Fred,
I knew I used it before, but since it wasn't such a common item, I went blank.

Thanks again...


>>I am trying to find out what the currently selected Windows printer is. I have looked at many functions from aprinters(), getprinter(), sys(1037), sys(6), etc...
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>>These will basically call up the prompt dialog, or give you a listing of all possible choices of installed printers.
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>>This may require an API call to determine this value. Anyone have experience with this I would appreciate the input.
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>>TIA
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>Are you talking about the current windows printer or the current printer that VFP is printing to?
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>The current windows printer is SET('PRINTER',2) and VFP6's SET('PRINTER',3).
>For VFP5 the current VFP printer can be found via some trickery:
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>1) Create a dummy cursor file
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>CREATE CURSOR x (x C(1))
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>2) Create a "quick report" from that cursor
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>CREATE REPORT x FROM x
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>3) Now open the X.FRX report as a table. The first records EXPR field contains info about the current printer that VFP is printing to. The DEVICE= line will have the name of the printer.
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>USE x.frx
>? x.expr
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>4) CLOSE and ERASE the dummy tables/reports. The cursor will erase itself when closed, but the report needs to be erased.
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>USE
>ERASE x.frx
>ERASE x.frt