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How do you change the default printer?
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22/12/1999 08:36:05
 
 
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22/12/1999 03:34:43
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
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00307039
Message ID:
00307210
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>>>I know SYS(1037) gives you a dialog. Also I know you can you SET PRINTER TO NAME GETPRINTER() but I thought there was a more efficient way to do this.
>>
>>Changing the Windows default printer got much easier with the release of WSH 2.0; the Wscript.Network object now has a SetDefaultPrinter method which can take the returned printer name or device name string from the VFP GETPRINTER() as a valid argument. VFP is quite happy with the reassignment done through the SetDefaultPrinter method, and it sticks!
>
>And if you already have a valid printer name you can use the SetDefaultPrinter method as well, correct. I'm not familiar with WSH 2.0. How do I set it up to use the SetDefaultPrinter?

oWshNet = CREATEOBJ('Wscript.Network')
oWshNet.SetDefaultPrinter(Windows printer name or device name)

You need Windows Script Host at version 2.0 to use this - it is not a part of WSH 1.0
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