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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00704393
Message ID:
00704489
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Thanks Ed and Sergey. That did the trick.

>>Can anyone tell me how I can change the default printer selection in VFP using Windows API commands? I'm using a 3rd party graphing package (Graphics Server 5.8), and when printing a graph the default printer is always used. I've tried the FoxPro command SET PRINTER TO NAME GETPRINTER( ), but this doesn't seem to send the user-selected printer info when outputing with this graphing package.
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>>So I believe the solution is to programatically change the default to a temporary user selection (using GETPRINTER()) and then resetting back when the printing is completed. I just don't know how to do is. Any suggestions with sample code are welcome.
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>The easiest solution is to use the Windows Script Host's SetDefaultPrinter method:
>
>
cCurrentPrinter = SET('PRINTER',2)
>oWSHNet = CREATEOBJ('Wscript.Network')
>oWSHNet.SetDefaultPrinter("MyWindowsPrinterName")
>*
>* Do your stuff
>*
>oWSHNet.SetDefaultPrinter(cCurrentPrinter)
>
>Obviously, you need the WSH version 2.0 or later installed.
Dave
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