Jeanne, I did look at 'answer printer' - as far as I understand it, this produces the 'Page Setup' dialog or windows equivalent. I'm looking for the 'Print' dialog, which allows the user to select the number of copies to be printed etc. On the Mac and Windows, these are generally different dialogs (look at MS Word for example), although the functionality may overlap (for example you may be able to choose the paper size via either of the dialogs).At 1:57 PM -0800 2/9/03, Graham Samuel wrote:According to the Transcript Dictionary, the 'revShowPrintDialog' command only works for revPrintField or revPrintText. How then do you force a print dialog to appear when you print a card (or cards) on a Windows-based system?Check out the answer printer command.
As I said before, I'm just trying to make my app behave like thousands of others on these platforms as far as printing is concerned. A typical app allows 'Page Setup' at any point in the program, and 'Print' when you actually want to initiate printing. In many apps, the 'Page Setup' settings are remembered across invocations of the program, although I admit this is not so consistent but rather depends on the app. If one does want to include this functionality, then of course it is necessary to be able to store the state of properties of the printing device as last set by the user or by the system, which in turn means you've got to be able to read either the individual properties or else to read and store some object which represents the printer driver. I am not clear if Revolution 2.0 helps with this, which is one reason why I'm still asking questions about maximum printable area.
Graham
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