How to check printer status 1

[glenda]

Hi
How do I check to see that the printer or printer device is online/offline in vfp. In foxpro 2.0 higher,I could use printstatus() function. What can I use now?.....thanks [sig][/sig]

 

[foxdev]

Its less of a thing left out of VFP than a result of the Windows interface. Since (at least in VFP) you no longer print directly to the printer but instead go through the Windows print manager, there is no longer a low-level printer status function. With PRTINFO() you can get a whole lot of information about a printer, but not whether it is online.

Perhaps someone here has a WinAPI function call that could be used. [sig]<p>Robert Bradley<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

http://www.foxdev.com/>FoxDev

- Visual FoxPro Development</a><br> [/sig]

 

[jonscott8]

FWIW, there's also the SYS(13) function. [sig]<p>Jon Hawkins<br><a href=mailto: jonscott8@yahoo.com> jonscott8@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Focus on the solution....Not the problem.[/sig]