Re: Printer question

Philippe Grenier wrote in message ...
>Hello everyone,
>
> I have good question for all of you. Have ORA_FFI functions been
>developped in order to access the GetPrinter, SetPrinter, OpenPrinter, etc
>API calls? I am trying do access the printer configuration parameters in
>order to bypass the Reports3 parameter form, and configure the printer
>directly so that I can indicate that the desired paper format is legal
size.
>For now, it seems that Reports and Windows do not wish to talk together,
>so my users must configure the printer every time they want to print a
>report in legal/landscape - and 90% of the reports are in that format. I
>would
>very much appreciate any suggestions from your part that would accelerate
>the processing of the solution.
>

Supplied with Dev/2K is a library call D2KWUTIL.PLL - look in the /tools/devdemo20/demo/forms ( maybe different on releases earlier than dev/2k r2.1 ) under your Oracle install directory. This forms library contains many routines to access the windows API ,  including reading/writing the registry, printer and file dialogs etc etc.

Have fun...

Martin Jones
Oracle Certified DBA Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 19:08:54 CEST