Peter,
to test this put this applescript into a field 1 and have a field 2 for the
result
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tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
set tReturn to ""
set x to name of every printer as list
repeat with i from 1 to count of items of x
set tReturn to tReturn & item i of x & tab
set tReturn to tReturn & item -1 of (properties of printer
(item i of x)
as list) & linefeed
end repeat
return tReturn
end tell
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put this into a button
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on mouseUp
do field 1 as applescript
put char 2 to - 3 of the result into field 2 -- gets rid of quotes and
trailing linefeed
end mouseUp
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so basically you let applescript return the value/s you are interested in
and you check the result.
The last item of the properties of a printer is the status, it unfortunately
returns idle. At least you get the names of the printers. The current
printer is the default printer.
regards
Bernd
Peter Brigham MD wrote:
>
> It returns "idle" in all cases? Are you saying that it doesn't
> distinguish if the printer is on/connected vs off/disconnected?
>
> How would I get the contents of the various printer properties from
> this script into rev variables to test this out? Do I use an 'on
> appleEvent' handler -- if so, how? Sorry for the naive questions, but
> I haven't used applescript much.
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> [email protected]
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
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