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Selecting a non-default printer in the printer dialog box using common dialog control

Asked by j22karuloom in Windows Programming, PowerBuilder Programming Language

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Hi!

I call printer window from code, which works fine. If the user selects a printer, I take the printer name and put into a global variable. When the user opens the dialog again, I would like the previously selected printer to be selected as well (but not to be made as a system default printer!).

I read an article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/ms646843(VS.85).aspx, and it says: "..If both hDevMode and hDevNames are NULL, PrintDlg initializes the dialog box using the current default printer. To initialize the dialog box for a different printer, use the wDeviceOffset member of the DEVNAMES structure to specify the name of the printer."

I would like to make it work like it is suggested, but I don't know how.

I have added my code there: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Editors_IDEs/PowerBuilder/Q_23565856.html

I have modified the printdialog function, so I attached the snippet with the new snippet:Start Free Trial 
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/*
 
Shows the print dialog box...
 
Members:
 
integer FromPage        // Print from page
integer ToPage          // Print to page
integer MinPage // Min page (smaller page)
integer MaxPage // Max page (higher page)
PROTECTEDWRITE integer Copies = 1 // Nº of copies to
print...
 
*/
 
PRINTDLG PrintDlg
DEVMODE DevMode
DEVNAMES DevNames
long pDevNames, pDevMode
blob lb_blob
string lst_prnlist, lst_prnname,  ls_temp, ls_fullstring
long ll_pos1, ll_pos2, ll_place
 
 
PrintDlg.lStructSize    = 66
PrintDlg.hWndOwner              = Handle(w_hidden)//hWndParent 
PrintDlg.hDevMode                       = 0
PrintDlg.hDevNames              = 0
PrintDlg.hDC                            = 0
PrintDlg.Flags                          = Flags
PrintDlg.nFromPage              = FromPage
PrintDlg.nToPage                        = ToPage
PrintDlg.nMinPage                       = MinPage
PrintDlg.nMaxPage                       = MaxPage
PrintDlg.nCopies                        = 0
PrintDlg.hInstance              = 0
PrintDlg.lCustData              = 0
PrintDlg.lpfnPrintHook  = 0
PrintDlg.lpfnSetupHook  = 0
PrintDlg.lpPrintTemplateName = "0"
PrintDlg.lpSetupTemplateName = "0"
PrintDlg.hPrintTemplate = 0
PrintDlg.hSetupTemplate = 0
 
 
if gst_userPrinterName = "" then
	ls_fullstring=PrintGetPrinter()
	
	ll_place=pos (ls_fullstring, "~t")
	gst_userPrinterName=left(ls_fullstring, ll_place -1)
	ls_temp=mid(ls_fullstring, ll_place +1)
	ll_place=pos (ls_temp, "~t")
	gst_userPrinterDriver=left(ls_temp, ll_place -1)
	gst_userPrinterPort=mid(ls_temp, ll_place +1)
end if
 
lst_prnlist  = PrintGetPrinters ( )
ll_pos1 = pos( lst_prnlist , "~n" )    
do while ll_pos1 > 0 
	ll_pos2 = pos( lst_prnlist , "~t" )
	lst_prnname = left( lst_prnlist, ll_pos2 -1 )
		  If lst_prnname = gst_userPrinterName Then
//					
		  End If							
	lst_prnlist = right( lst_prnlist, len( lst_prnlist ) - ll_pos1 )
	ll_pos1 = pos( lst_prnlist , "~n" )
loop
 
 
 
int ll_test
ll_test = PrintDlgA(PrintDlg)
 
if ll_test = 1 Then
	
		pDevMode = LocalLock(PrintDlg.hDevMode)
		GetDevMode(DevMode,pDevMode,148) // Lock dynamic memory handle
		LocalUnlock(pDevMode) // Unlock dynamic memory handle
		
		pDevNames = LocalLock(PrintDlg.hDevNames)
		GetDevNames(DevNames,pDevNames,8) // Lock dynamic memory handle
		LocalUnlock(pDevNames) // Unlock dynamic memory handle
 
        FromPage        = PrintDlg.nFromPage
        ToPage  = PrintDlg.nToPage
        MinPage         = PrintDlg.nMinPage
        MaxPage         = PrintDlg.nMaxPage
        Copies  = PrintDlg.nCopies
 
        If Copies = 1 Then // Copies are provided by devmode..
                Copies = DevMode.dmCopies
        End If
		
		int test
		test  = DevNames.wDeviceOffset
		test = test + pDevNames		
	
		ls_temp = String(pDevNames + DevNames.wDeviceOffset, "address" ) // format string
		lb_blob = blob(ls_temp, EncodingUTF16LE!)
		gst_userPrinterName = string(lb_blob, EncodingANSI!) // convert
		
		ls_temp =  String(pDevNames + DevNames.wDriverOffset,"address") // format string
		lb_blob = blob(ls_temp, EncodingUTF16LE!)
		gst_userPrinterDriver = string(lb_blob, EncodingANSI!) // convert
		
		ls_temp =String(pDevNames + DevNames.wOutPutOffset,"address") // format string
		lb_blob = blob(ls_temp, EncodingUTF16LE!)
		gst_userPrinterPort = string(lb_blob, EncodingANSI!) // convert		  
 
        //SetPrinter(gst_userPrinterName,gst_userPrinterDriver, //gst_userPrinterPort)
        Return(True)
End If  
 
Return(False)
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