Print Document from WordPad

[jche]

Hi there
I need to automate the printing of wordpad documents using VB. The following code is what I have written :-

Dim filename As String
Dim wp As String
Dim actApp As String


filename = "test1.txt"
wp = "c:\wordpad.exe c:\MyDocuments\" + filename
Shell wp

' to change focus to WordPad app
actApp = filename + " - WordPad"
AppActivate actApp

I believe the above will make the wordpad application window active. But what do I do next print the document from here?

I need to open up the document in order to print becoz the document contains Chinese characters. So I need to open up the document so that a Chinese translator software at my PC will display them correctly before printing. Pls help and advise. Thanks alot for your kind attention.

Rgds
jche...

 

[Schweiger]

as far as I know Wordpad doesn't support DDE nor OLE. So you could use Sendkeys to control printing in Wordpad:

SendKeys "^p{ENTER}", True

It doesn't seem that p is language dependent... but you can never know for sure... So be aware of this possible problem...

Hope this helps
Andreas