Hi Rick,

See Thread #482054 Message #482134

Walter,

>Hello All:
>
>This works using Crystal Reports and Windows 98:
> use FOXTOOLS to get the Printer Driver and the Printer Port to use as Crystal SelectPrinter variables.
>
>oReport.SelectPrinter(lcPrinterDriver,lcPrinterName,lcPrinterPort)
>
>The code to use FoxTools is at the bottom of this message.
>lcPrinterName is the Windows Printer Name.
>
>But, in Windows 2000, the Printer Driver returned by FOXTOOLS is always WINSPOOL.
>
>How does one go about getting the actual printer driver used by Windows?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Rick
>
>
>Sample Code:
>
>lcPrinterDriver=""
>lcPrinterPort=""
>lcbuffer = SPACE(500)
>lnlength = LEN(lcbuffer)
>IF x2setlib("FOXTOOLS")
> lnlength = GetProStrg('devices',lcPrinterName,"",@lcbuffer,lnlength)
>ENDIF
>lcbuffer=ALLTRIM(lcbuffer)
>lncomma1=AT(",",lcbuffer,1)
>IF lncomma1<>0
> lcPrinterDriver=ALLTRIM(LEFT(lcbuffer,lncomma1-1))
> lcPrinterPort=ALLTRIM(RIGHT(lcbuffer,LEN(lcbuffer)-lncomma1))
>ENDIF
>
>oReport.SelectPrinter(lcPrinterDriver,lcPrinterName,lcPrinterPort)