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How can I get detailed printer info?

Hi,

I need to obtain the detailed information about a printer:

DriverName
PortName
DeviceName

These things don't seem to be available in the TPrinter object.

Thank you!
MP

lortega

to get the printers names do this:

Create a new proyect
add a listbox
add a button
on the click event of the button write
Listbox1.items.addstrings(printer.printers);
Run it!

lortega

see DeviceCapabilities on your help file

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ZifNab

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ZifNab

and windows api example :

different levels of info (see api help!)

printers.getprinter uses a different level if on win NT (level 4)or Win95/98 (level 5)

Var
pInfo: PPrinterInfo2;
bytesNeeded: DWORD;
hPrinter: THandle;

Begin
GetPrinter( hPrinter, 2, Nil, 0, @bytesNeeded );
pInfo := AllocMem( bytesNeeded );
try
GetPrinter( hPrinter, 2, pInfo, bytesNeeded, @bytesNeeded );
With pInfo^ Do Begin

End;
finally
FreeMem( pInfo );
end;
end;

mikepj

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Dear ZifNab,

Thank you for your answer; it works! I had looked a lot at GetPrinter but decided that it didn't have what I needed after I saw that the first three parameters didn't have "var" before them. Because they're PChar types they don't need to have "var" in front?

Thank you for your help!
MP