vb3 OR vb4?  In VB4, look for help under PRINTER object.

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  Andrew Retallack  - Johannesburg, South Africa

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infinite reservoirs of wisdom:

Get pprtr47.zip from any big ftp site (like ftp.winsite.com).

Jens
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May seem like stupid question but, does anyone know of a simple way to temporarily change the default printer
from VB.  I need to change the printer to the Fax/modem driver, print to the fax then automatically switch back
to the previous default printer.

Any help would be appreciated, sample code, name of a 3rd party product, anything.

Thanks in advance.
J.Ribeiro

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=>> May seem like stupid question but, does anyone know of a simple way to
=>>temporarily change the default printer from VB.  
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=>vb3 OR vb4?  In VB4, look for help under PRINTER object.
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=>  Andrew Retallack  - Johannesburg, South Africa

=> "The views expressed above are figments of your imagination"

I'm trying to work-out the same thing in VB3.

In VB3 - Use something like

  GetProfileString("WINDOWS", "DEVICE", "", cDevice, 127)

to get the current default printer (save it for later?). Then use
something like

  WriteProfileString("WINDOWS", "DEVICE", cNew)

to change to a new printer. Also, tell any other apps running that
win.ini has changed using -

  PostMessageByString(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_WININICHANGE, 0, "WINDOWS")

I hope this helps.
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