>>>>>>>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?
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>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.

Yes, you are right, but some users don't know Windows very much and probably should be prompted in right direction inside an application.