troubles with the set up of printers

rbuser

Hi, someone knows how is that Report Builder do the set-up of the printers
installed on a computer?
The next situation is happenig to the users:
1. I have two printers installed and map on the computer.
2. I start my aplication that use RB, and print a report. The print
dialog show me both of the installed
printers.
3. While the aplication is open, I delete one of the printers.
4. I open the print dialog and the deleted printer is still there, also
if I try to print there an error ocurrs.

The same happens if I only had one printer and add another one. Is like
if RB be retaining the initial
setup of printers.
Also the ExtraDevices options disappears from the print dialog after
the error.

If this is any help or indication, I'm using RB. 6.03 with Delphi 6.0.
And the application is running on Citrix, and most of the users had Win98.

thanks a lot.

nicocizik

Hi Eugenio,

ReportBuilder uses the Windows API to retrieve the printers installed on
your machine and constructs a list of these printers (TppPrinterList). This
printer list is saved in memory so RB does not have to keep asking Windows
which printers are available. If you are adding or removing printers from
you machine for some reason while RB is running, try calling the
ppPrinters.Refresh before or after the report has completed printing. You
will need to add ppPrintr to your uses clause to gain access to this object.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

I will try that.
thanks a lot Nico!!