Thanks Hugo,
I got the same results you did. I'm running VFP 8.0 on Win XP and still didn't get the driver info.
Rodd
>What I know is that it
should be possible using WMI, but, unfortunately the property value for this is apparently not set, at least for the printers we have, we got null values for the 2 properties we needed the most! :)
>
>If you are running Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows NT Workstation 4.0, the WMI code for this would be something like this:
>
>
>loLocator = createObject("wbemScripting.SwbemLocator")
>loService = loLocator.ConnectServer()
>loPrinters = loService.ExecQuery('Select * from Win32_Printer')
>
>for each loPrinter in loPrinters
> ?? loPrinter.name, loPrinter.MarkingTechnology
> if not Isnull(loPrinter.LanguagesSupported)
> for each lnLanguage in loPrinter.LanguagesSupported
> ?? lnLanguage
> endfor
> else
> ?? 'No languages supported found'
> endif
> ?
>endfor
>
>*!* MarkingTechnology Table of values
>
>*!* Value Meaning
>*!* 1 Other
>*!* 2 Unknown
>*!* 3 Electrophotographic LED
>*!* 4 Electrophotographic Laser
>*!* 5 Electrophotographic Other
>*!* 6 Impact Moving Head Dot Matrix 9pin
>*!* 7 Impact Moving Head Dot Matrix 24pin
>*!* 8 Impact Moving Head Dot Matrix Other
>*!* 9 Impact Moving Head Fully Formed
>*!* 10 Impact Band
>*!* 11 Impact Other
>*!* 12 Inkjet Aqueous
>*!* 13 Inkjet Solid
>*!* 14 Inkjet Other
>*!* 15 Pen
>*!* 16 Thermal Transfer
>*!* 17 Thermal Sensitive
>*!* 18 Thermal Diffusion
>*!* 19 Thermal Other
>*!* 20 Electroerosion
>*!* 21 Electrostatic
>*!* 22 Photographic Microfiche
>*!* 23 Photographic Imagesetter
>*!* 24 Photographic Other
>*!* 25 Ion Deposition
>*!* 26 eBeam
>*!* 27 Typesetter
>
>*!* LanguagesSupported Table of values
>*!* Value Meaning
>*!* 1 Other
>*!* 2 Unknown
>*!* 3 PCL
>*!* 4 HPGL
>*!* 5 PJL
>*!* 6 PS
>*!* 7 PSPrinter
>*!* 8 IPDS
>*!* 9 PPDS
>*!* 10 EscapeP
>*!* 11 Epson
>*!* 12 DDIF
>*!* 13 Interpress
>*!* 14 ISO6429
>*!* 15 LineData
>*!* 16 DODCA
>*!* 17 REGIS
>*!* 18 SCS
>*!* 19 SPDL
>*!* 20 TEK4014
>*!* 21 PDS
>*!* 22 IGP
>*!* 23 CodeV
>*!* 24 DSCDSE
>*!* 25 WPS
>*!* 26 LN03
>*!* 27 CCITT
>*!* 28 QUIC
>*!* 29 CPAP
>*!* 30 DecPPL
>*!* 31 SimpleText
>*!* 32 NPAP
>*!* 33 DOC
>*!* 34 imPress
>*!* 35 Pinwriter
>*!* 36 NPDL
>*!* 37 NEC201PL
>*!* 38 Automatic
>*!* 39 Pages
>*!* 40 LIPS
>*!* 41 TIFF
>*!* 42 Diagnostic
>*!* 43 CaPSL
>*!* 44 EXCL
>*!* 45 LCDS
>*!* 46 XES
>*!* 47 MIME
>>
>BUT...
>
>Those properties return NULL for all the printers I tested, my guess is that it might be something to do with the drivers? I do not know, but if it runs for you, you were luckier than me :)
