Re: Forms 4.5: getting available printers

In article <367a08fc.1038646_at_news.frontiernet.net>, "Steven C. Kondolf" <skondolf_at_hatespam.frontiernet.net> writes Have a look at the D2kwutil, etc libraries somewhere up the SQLLIB directory. I've not used the printer selection dialogue, but I believe that it is there!

Andy
>I'm working on a form where I need to call a reports 2.5 program and pass
>parameters from Forms 4.5. I want to run the report in asynchronous batch
>mode. This will be run on a Windows95 pc.
>
>I need to be able to pick an available printer to pass to the report via
>the DESNAME parameter. The application requires much repetitive printing
>requests to many different printers and I don't want to slow the user down
>by popping up the runtime parameter form each time the report is chosen.
>
>Since batch mode doesn't pop up any window allowing me to choose the
>printer, how do I get the list of of available printers defined on the pc
>I'm running the report on so I can pass this info?
>
>Thanks.
>Steve
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