>Hi,
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> Is there a way to talk to a printer from a VFP application in order to get the status of the print jobs and know what file or report is being printed?
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There are Win32 API calls that will allow you to check the status of the print spooler, examining errors reportd to the spooler, jobs queued, etc. If you want to examine how to do this in detail, and don't mind mucking about in either C or VB to get the hang of how things work, Chapter 14 in Simon's
Windows NT Win32 API Superbible (Waite Group, ISBN 1-57169-089-1, C oriented) or Chapter 12 of Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API (ZD Press, ISBN 1-56276-287-7, VB oriented) both cover the printing APIs quite well.
