Print To File

[Scoty]

Ok,
I've gone completely insane trying to figure this out. Please help.. I have a program that prints several reports overnight. My problem is the reports are large and the printer is unreliable. So I can't print directly to the printer as it may jam or spill papers all over the floor or some such nonsence. So what I have done is changed the printer over from lpt1 to file. The system them prompts for a filename. I thought I had it licked. I built a small program that pops up and appactivates the "print to file" dialog. This runs great as long as I stare at it. If I lock my machine it does not work. Is there any api which would let me take control of the "print to file" dialog box so I dont have to appactivate and sendkeys.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Scoty : Learn from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),

 

[TimLarkin]

you don't say what/how/software is doing these reports. some reporting software have a flag you can set so the user dialog box won't come up GL (I've gone thru this kind of contortions myself) Tim

Remember the KISS principle:
Keep It Simple, Stupid!

 

[Scoty]

Tim,
Thanks for your reply. The Reports are coming out of Access97. The small "appactivate" programs are in vb6. I will (sooner or later) convert everything over to vb6 with dsn dataservers. I am running on an WindowsNT 4.0 box. If you need any other info please let me know
Thanks
Scoty : Learn from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),