Now Razzak, you're teasing....
OK, I admit I didn't search my hard drive first - now I have, and since I'm
up to date with everything I assume this would need to be a new DLL!!!
Which we'll look into getting created!
David Blocker
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----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Detecting if the default printer isconnectedin
6.5++
>
> David,
>
> Can you take a wild guess?
>
> Very Best R:egards,
>
> Razzak.
>
>
> At 12:44 PM 12/3/2003 -0500, David Blocker wrote:
>
> >Thanks to all whop responded on this question!
> >
> >Razzak, is the PRNStatus.DLL an actual DLL that exists,
> >or that we would need to create?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >David Blocker
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >781-784-1919
> >Fax: 781-784-1860
> >Cell: 339-206-0261
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:34 PM
> >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Detecting if the default printer is connectedin
> >6.5++
> >
> > > At 04:55 PM 12/1/2003 -0500, David Blocker wrote:
> > >
> > > >Is there a way in R:Base 6.5++ to detect if a user's default printer
is
> > > >actually connected? I am working on an application where users will
have
> > > >portable PC's and portable printers to take around on their work
rounds.
> > > >They will periodically connect their portables to the network to move
> >data
> > > >back and forth and will need to print reports. We'd like to set it
up so
> > > >that if the user connects his/her portable printer, it will print
there,
> >but
> > > >if not, to a different network printer.
> > > >
> > > >Step one is to detect - is the default local printer connected?
> > >
> > > David,
> > >
> > > That would be a perfect use of a PLUGIN in 7.0 and WINUDF in 6.5++ for
> >Windows!
> > >
> > > Example 01: Using R:BASE 7.0 for Windows
> > >
> > > PLUGIN PRNStatus 'vValue'
> > >
> > > The resulting variable "vValue" will return the status of default
printer.
> > >
> > > Example 02: Using R:BASE 6.5++ (1.866xRT03) or higher for Windows
> > >
> > > SET VAR vValue = (WinUDF('PRNStatus.DLL','GetStatus'))
> > >
> > > The resulting variable "vValue" will return the status of default
printer.
> > >
> > > Very Best R:egards,
> > >
> > > Razzak.
>
>
