OpenEuphoria

Re: setPrintJobProperty problem

• Posted by Andy Drummond <andy at kestrelt?l?.com> Oct 27, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> 
> 
> Since getPrinterChoice() displays a dialog box where the user might change
> settings,
> it has to check for these changes and make them effective for the printer.
> That's
> a fair amount of code indeed.
> 
> > If so, should you add the getDefault Printer() to Win32Lib then I assume it
> > would set things up exactly the same as getPrinter()+OK does. Then it will
> > work fine. I can wait; it is not a great pain like the press shift once
> > pain.
> > 
> 
> The code I had posted was meant to be pasted in w32resources.ew, right after
> getPrinterChoice(). It will be in 70.2 anyway, probably with the enhancements
> suggested above.
> 
> > Is it possible to call getPrinter() with an argument which tells the routine
> > the printer name to get or even just to imitate the press of OK for the
> > default printer? Something like (DOS days) pushing a keypress onto the key
> > stack before calling a routine which then gets the keypress & returns with
> > no user input needed. A thought....
> 
> I think I'd rather add a selectPrinter(objet printer) procedure. If printer
> is a sequence, it is a printer name string, and that will set designated
> printer
> as current printer. If name is unknown, fall back on getPrinterChoice(). How
> about that?
>

CChris, what you suggest is excellent; it would cover all cases beyond maybe
having a routine which returns a list of the names of the printers available.
Since I only want the default that is not something I'd ask for. Not yet!

I am content to wait for your doing this as and when you get around to it;
it will be a useful upgrade to my code so I can do a Microsoft Word and just 
have a button which prints all by itself. Magic.  I can use
setPrintJobProperty()
to do lots now with just a single click to accept the printer choice.

> > 
> > I appreciate your work on Win32Lib enormously - as I do Derek's work and
> > I guess David Cuny's, who started it. You guys all want medals - or money -
> > but not being Bill Gates's, you will get users complaining their model
> > railway
> > won't work right under Win32Lib or their printer keeps running out of ink or
> > something silly like that.  
> > 
> > Tough life, isn't it. You do have many fans, though!
> > 
> > AndyD
>
May I comment; when I said you guys all want medals etc, I meant DESERVE medals
not want as in desire.... no offence meant.
 
> 
> I expect more complaints about printing for the weeks ahead actually. 
> The lib had just so many print features that were offered, but didn't work.
> As some start to, there will be more voices to ask for everything to work
> right
> out of the box, and I cannot test everything because I have one computer and
> two printers only (a laser and AdobePDF). That's why having a good pool of
> testers
> to catch issues before release would tremendously help.
> 
> CChris

Hopefully not too many complaints - just helpful criticism as we try and do
our job as testers. But it does sound like complaining to me though it is
not meant that way..  

AndyD