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Reads & Writes to Win95 Registry
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29/01/1999 16:22:05
 
 
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29/01/1999 16:12:01
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Classes - VCX
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00182021
Message ID:
00182033
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>Greetings All,
>
>I need to be able to select a list of printers from the registry, let the user select a new default printer, and write the value back to the registry. I have found a foundation class (registry.prg) that shipped with VFP 6.0, but I am having a difficult time getting it to work.
>
>My associate here uses Powerbuilder and he was able to get it to work in PB, so I am trying to follow his code so I can use VFP.
>
>Below is my first step.
>The "HKEY_CURRENT" phrase is the path in the registry of the printers.
>
>regfile = HOME(2)+"classes\registry.prg"
>oReg = NewObject("FoxReg",m.regfile)
>
>dimension aFoxOptions[1,2]
>
>cVal = oReg.GetKeyValue; ("HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\PRINT\PRINTERS",@aFoxOptions)
>
>Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Is there a reason not to use GETPRINTER(), or populate the list with APRINTERS()?

>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Scott
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