Subj : Re: How to select a non-default printer?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "David Ayre" <davidcayre@aol.com>
Date : Tue Jan 06 2004 08:06 am


Hi Bob,

Thanks for that. I want the programme to select one of the
 other printers installed instead of the default. The user
 won't know about this.
By the way, do you know where this info is stored in Win 2000?
In earlier versions it is in win.ini.

Cheers,

David


Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote:
>David Ayre wrote:
>
>>I use a routine that automatically selects the default printer,
>>But I would now like to be able to override the default selection
>>and select another printer.
>
>You the User, or You the Programmer?
>For You the User, remove  sPd.Flags = PD_RETURNDEFAULT;
>
>For You the Programmer, you could use EnumPrinters with PRINTER_INFO_2
>to get the same data your are saving.
>
>>	lpDevNames = (LPDEVNAMES)GlobalLock(sPd.hDevNames);
>>	lpcDriver = (LPSTR)lpDevNames + lpDevNames->wDriverOffset;  
>>	lpcDevice = (LPSTR)lpDevNames + lpDevNames->wDeviceOffset;
>>	lpcPort = (LPSTR)lpDevNames + lpDevNames->wOutputOffset;
>>	GlobalUnlock(sPd.hDevNames);
>>	ptr = (LPDEVMODE)GlobalLock(sPd.hDevMode);
>
>

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