VB Printing with Commondialog and Printer Object

I've got Sevice Pack 3 installed (Cmmom Dialog was updated in SP2)
Your code works fine, however it sets the selected printer to the default

I also have Service Pack 3 installed...  Should have tested the code after I hacked it up and posted it!!!!

You are correct the above works.  It doesn't seem to work if you have a button on a form call btnSetup:

Private Sub btnSetup_Click()
 
  CommonDialog1.CancelError=False
  CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter

End Sub

And then you do the printing from another button:

Private Sub btnPrint_Click()

  Printer.Print "Testing....."

End Sub

The above only seems to print to the Default Printer that was initially setup, not whatever the user changes the printer to...

I have tried the following code just to verify whether it will print to the printer I selected in the Commondialog box, and it worked.

Private Sub Form_Load()
CommonDialog1.Action = 5
Printer.Print "Testing page"
End Sub

I have selected another printer other than the default printer and it printed to that printer.  Just check again.  It will work.

Regards,
Vamsi

You are correct, I posted it the wrong way the first time!  The comment I added right before you answered it is actually the code that I am using.

It doesn't seem to work if you do the printer selection in a Function/Sub other than the one you print in.

I have done this as follows and it is working here.  In the Form load procedure, I displayed the printer dialog box, and selected one printer.  Then in button procedure, I again called the printer dialog box, and it is showing the printer which i have selected.  On clicking on "OK" in the dialog box, it is printing to that selected printer.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter
Printer.Print "Testing page"
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter
End Sub

I don't know, why it is giving problems to u.  All I can assure is that the above code works, and is working here.

Regards,
Vamsi

It may work from the Form_Load event but I don't want a printer dialog to appear unless the user wants it to appear by clicking on the printer setup button.

This is the Exact code for a button in a large program:

Call MsgBox("Printer=" & Printer.DeviceName)
 
CommonDialog1.CancelError = False
 
CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter
 
Call MsgBox("Printer=" & Printer.DeviceName)

it doesn't work in that large program (both MsgBox calls display the same thing).

It does however work in a small test program (the last MsgBox displays the Printer chosen in the ShowPrinter line)....

This is very confusing...  Noting that this did not start happening until I upgraded the project to VB 5.0 from VB 4.0!!!

This usually implies interference from code that is in the middle. Can you isolate a
defecting code between the two msgBox calls?

That did the trick, thanks a bunch!!  Just didn't dawn on me that something like that would have changed by just upgrading from VB 4.0 to VB 5.0.

Again, Thanks!