One of our members, Tom Dill, will be speaking on the subject of Automated Printer Setup at the Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group.

Creating a VFP application to print to various printers using various paper stock on various Windows operating systems has always been a problem. Suggested solutions have ranged from directing the users to figure it out themselves and have them use the operating system's control panel all the way to employing a third-party tool such as Crystal Reports. This presentation will demonstrate a solution that employs a home-grown ActiveX Control and VFP wrapper class that are employed during development and operations to completely automate the setup of multiple printers for any given report or set of labels. Topics include a summary of the object-oriented process used to engineer the solution, a description of the ActiveX Control and its wrapper class, the use of VFP Project Manager hooks, and a means for embellishing the native VFP Preview window.

See http://www.lafox.org for directions to the user group and further details.

Bill Anderson