>>I am finding it hard to believe that our old Big Brother MS has provided us NO WAY to tell if the Print button was pressed on the Print Preview toolbar. Maybe there's a way to trap the event by going to the API? Any suggestions?
>
>I don't know how to capture pressing the print button, but how about using a global memory variable? Like this:
>
>Create global memory variable glPrinted
>
>Create printon.prg:
>*PRINTON.PRG
>glPrinted = NOT glPrinted
>
>In the title band on entry event put:
> printon()
>
>In your code to preview and print:
>
>glprinted = .T.
>report form preview
>IF NOT glprinted
> IF (your message program) = "Yes"
> report form to print
> ENDIF
>ENDIF
>
>I am assuming that you don't want to show a message asking if the user wants to print a report when they've already printed it from the preview toolbar.
>
>HTH,
>Valerie

Thank you very much... this is an EXTREMELY CLEVER way of dealing with this.. I should have thought of that sooner! Thx again!

- Gino M