>>>>>>I am trying to set the printer to a previously retreived name from getprinter(). When I use the SET PRINTER TO NAME variable - I get a "Error Accessing Printer Spooler" error. I also tried SET PRINTER TO variable, of course that did not work either. This is VFP 3.0
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>>>>>>Bryan
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>>>>>It seems to me that since you select a printer in 'Print Setup' you will print to it (so you don't need SET PRINTER TO...). There is a trick that you should clean up printer table (frx file) from printer name.
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>>>>I can't use printer setup in my app, as I do not have a file menu. I want to store the printer that the user selects to use again next time the app is run.
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>>>Use SYS(1037) to bring up Print Setup dialog. Selected once it will not be change until next reselection. BTW I was sure that getprinter() invokes that dialog too.
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>>SYS(1037) has more details (paper size, source, orientation) but top part of its window looks exactly the same as GETPRINTER(), may be they return selected different way?
> May be, but the main purpose is to select printer whatever we return, isn't it?

maybe i'm missing something, but doesn't windoze have the capability of selecting a default printer? if so, you don't need to do that here (unless of course you want to use a different default printer for your fox app only.