>>I am trying to print a Rich Text document from within Foxpro, as well as display the document. I started by using the RichText ActiveX Control, which displays the document with no problem. Now I want to print the document but I need the printer handle to do it using this control. Anybody know how to get a printer handle? Or...does anyone know of a better way to print an RTF within Foxpro?
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>Hi Eugene,
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>If you find out an answer to your question, please let me also know about it...
>We're facing the same challenge over here and the only way we had discovered to do that is using the RichText Control Method called "SelPrint" (but that's not enough for us here).
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>Thanks,
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>Renato.


We used write.exe in 'silent mode'. It's standard on W95 and if you RUN or winShellExecute with a "-p" (print) paramater and the file name wordpad will print in the background RTF documents. We have an app where the client constructs customer brochures. .e.g.
run /n2 write.exe ...[path]\edoc0001.rtf -p
A number of the standard utilities show their "C" roots by supporing -x switches.

You could also use winShellExecute from the win32api with the 'print' option and pass the file name. The file association should pick the appropriate utility and you get a return code if there is a problem rather than having a RUN command fail.
Hope this helps a little.
Gary