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Finding name of active printer in VFP5.0
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From
30/08/1999 20:55:08
 
 
To
30/08/1999 12:41:01
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Windows API functions
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00259088
Message ID:
00259465
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17
>Petter,
>
>One trick is to create a dummy quick report in the following manner:
>
>create a dummy cursor:
>CREATE CURSOR DUMMYCURSOR(DUMMY C)
>
>then create a dummy quick report
>CREATE REPORT DUMMYREPORT FROM DBF("DUMMYCURSOR")
>
>open the report as a table:
>USE Dummyreport.frx
>
>And read the second line of the Expr field.
>cDefaultFoxPrinter=STRTRAN(MLINE(Expr,2),"DEVICE=","")
>
>It's kind of slow, but it seems to work.
>
>Walter,


How about reading it from the old WIN.INI??
VFP5a reads it from here so why not you.

Bernard
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