Monte,
Thank you so much - exactly that - so for LC6.x I added the follow which
address the problem whether in the IDE or standalone
put the defaultFolder into tSaveDefaultFolder
if (the environment is "development") then -- IDE
set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("engine")
else -- standalone
set the defaultFolder to appPath()
end if
-- do my PDF printing
set the defaultFolder to tSaveDefaultFolder
If I every see you at a LiveCode Conference (I have to attend Edinburgh
via webcast this year), I owe you drinks or a meal or both!
On 7/26/2016 11:31 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
> Hi Paul
>
> I bumped into this in a project just before I started working for LiveCode.
> There’s an issue some of the latter 6.7 releases that requires you to set the
> default folder to the folder the pdf printer dll is in before opening
> printing for the first time. I believe this is fixe in LC 8.
>
> Cheers
>
> Monte
>> On 26 Jul 2016, at 4:49 PM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have very large application running under LC 6.7.11 for Windows and OSX
>>
>> I have code that does an "open printing for PDF", prints a field, and
>> closes printing. Under OSX this works fine.
>>
>> Under Windows, in both the IDE and a standalone, I get an execution
>> error on the open printing for pdf line with the message:
>> execution error at line n/a (printing: Unknown destination)
>>
>> In the standalone, I might have interpreted this error as that the
>> "revpdfprinter.dll" did not get added to the standalone, but it is
>> (although why this dll is placed at the application level and not in the
>> Externals folder continues to puzzle me).
>>
>> I also might have though the file path & name passed to open pritning
>> for pdf may have been a problem, but I have checked via debugger and the
>> file path & name is valid, in a writable location, plenty of disk space,
>> etc. Also tried multiple files and locations, so that is not it
>>
>> However the fact that it happens in the IDE completely mystifies me. Can
>> ANY one tell me what this error really means and what the cause may be?
>>
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