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API Printing Functions for Win95, 98 and ME from delphi

Hi!

I'm trying to intercept the printing jobs sent to printerspool, for operating systems like Win NT, Win2000 and XP I know that I havet to use FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification and FindNextPrinterChangeNotification. In SDK documentation said that these functions are only available for Win NT, 2000 and XP and these functions are not implemented for Win95, 98 and ME.

My question is, which are the API functions that I must use for Win95, 98 and ME and which it is the way to implement it from delphi.

Thanks

Ricardo

geobul

Hi,

Just an idea: perhaps you could use a system-wide hook (WH_GETMESSAGE type) which will listen for WM_SPOOLERSTATUS messages.

Regards, Geo

Ricardo_M

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Thanks for your reply Geo. I was checking on SDK documentation and this message tell me if a new job was added to the queue, that's ok but the documentation say that you must use FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification and FindNextPrinterChangeNotification, to get the properties for this job (page qty, size, etc.) and this only works in Windows NT and later not for Win95, 98 and ME.

WM_SPOOLERSTATUS works from Win95 and that's Ok, but I don't know how to change a job status (pause, delete, resume, etc.) in Win95 and later.

If any one of you know how to do please let me know how can I implement this task.

Regards,

Ricardo

geobul

Oh, sorry. I thought you just wanted to be notified that a print job had arrived. I'm afraid that you can't modify the print job itself this way.

Regards, Geo

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