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How to know when a printer is online?
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Similar questions have been asked before:
thread184-28306
thread184-476446
thread184-667171
In brief, what you can select from the Windows printer selection list are Windows printer drivers installed for certain printers. Unfortuantely in the Windows environment the current printer status is hidden from the application. You must leave it to Windows to check the status and report problems to the user, not the program itself. As seen on those threads and in the Printers section of the FAQs in his forum, some have written workaround code to check whether the report failed to print, was just previewed or actually printed.
This FAQ faq184-2919 uses the function WEXIST("Printing..."
to detect if a report is being printed. Perhaps reverse logic could also be used to let the program know a report has NOT been printed. Still, the user and the program wouldn't know the connection status until AFTER you tried to print.
thread184-28306
thread184-476446
thread184-667171
In brief, what you can select from the Windows printer selection list are Windows printer drivers installed for certain printers. Unfortuantely in the Windows environment the current printer status is hidden from the application. You must leave it to Windows to check the status and report problems to the user, not the program itself. As seen on those threads and in the Printers section of the FAQs in his forum, some have written workaround code to check whether the report failed to print, was just previewed or actually printed.
This FAQ faq184-2919 uses the function WEXIST("Printing..."
to detect if a report is being printed. Perhaps reverse logic could also be used to let the program know a report has NOT been printed. Still, the user and the program wouldn't know the connection status until AFTER you tried to print.- Status
