Hi,
I did a bit more playing with this (vfp9 ReportBehavior=80):
SET PRINTER TO NAME GETPRINTER( )
*seems to work OK - but see below**
?SET("Printer",2) && Windows Default
?SET("Printer",3) && New Fox Default
select foo, bah from somewhere into cursor xxx READWRITE
CREATE REPORT tst FROM xxx && layout is in tag *but no printer info*
(why?)
REPORT FORM tst to printer && see below
** The first time I tried this I selected a printer that is no longer
connected
** and the report apparently printed to the *Win* default - confirming the
behaviour
** reported by Dave Crozier and others.
** I then tried Devendra's suggestion of using aprinters() and noticed that
my
** selected printer was on lpt1: the same port as the Win default.
** so I tried selecting Paperport (a software printer which uses its own
port)
** - this worked using the aprinters() name. I then tried
** SET PRINTER TO NAME GETPRINTER( ) again but selecting Paperport - AOK!
So there seems to be no difference between getprinter and aprinters - and I
offer the suggestion that the suspected bug re Win ~ Fox default printers
may be a port thing - i.e. if no printer is in the frx Fox uses the printer
*on the port* specified for the Fox default (I wonder which driver?)
I leave more extensive testing (and networked printers) as an exercise for
the reader (Dave?) <VBG>
Andrew Davies MBCS CITP
- AndyD 8-)#
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