>>Hi Sonali,>>Check out the GETPRINTER() function. It returns the current printer.>>Kamal>>>In VFP 3.0 how is it possible to determine the Current Printer>>>>Thanks and Happy New Year>>>>SonaliHi! GETPRINTER() function opens up a dialouge box and then you haveto press enter/escape to exit. You can stuff the keyboard and get thecurrent printer but that is really an indirect method.Is there any more direct method.ThanksSonali

Sonali,

In both Win 3.1 and Win 95, the current default printer can be found in the WIN.INI file in the [windows] section's device= entry. You can retrieve this using the API call GetProfileString. Further, you might want to check your FOXTOOLS.FLL library for GetProStrg. This function is in the version that comes with VFP 5.0, but I'm not sure about 3.0. Depending on which version of windows VFP is compiled under, the syntax would be one of the following:

Win 3.1

m.getpro = RegFN("GetProfileString", "CCC@CI", "I")
m.buffer = SPACE(200)
m.buflen = LEN(m.buffer)
m.buflen = CallFN(m.getpro, "windows", "device", "", @bufffer, m.buflen)

Win 95

DECLARE INTEGER GetProfileString IN Win32API;
STRING c_section, STRING c_entry, STRING cdefault,;
STRING @cbuffer, INTEGER nBufflen
lcbuffer = SPACE(200)
lnbuflen = LEN(lcbuffer)
lnbuflen = GetProfileString("windows", "device", "", @lcbuffer, lnbuflen)

To extract the name use:

lcname = LEFT(lcbuffer, AT(",", lcbuffer) - 1)

The only problem with the above may be under NT, where the printer name may be kept in the registry.

hth,

George