Suppress Print Spooler Dialog?? 1

[BillGravell]

Does anyone know of a way of suppressing the Print Spooler Dialog output? (It's the dialog that comes up when you send a report to the printer that indicates the current page printing...)

I've tried directing output to a window defined off the screen, Set Console Off, etc with no success....

Thanks,

bill

 

[Mike Gagnon]

BillGravell

In the first band of your report (The header band). Double click on it, and open up "On entry" and in that put:

IF WEXIST("Printing...")
  MOVE WINDOW ("PRINTING...") TO -1000,-1000
ENDIF

Mike Gagnon

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[rgbean]

Mike's trick will indeed make it unseen, but to totally eliminate it, you'll need to wait for VFP 8.0's NODIALOG option in the REPORT command.

Rick

 

[BillGravell]

Thanks Mike....however....

It didn't work. Realized that the "On Entry" only accepts a logical expression.

So, I created a udf in my program and put your code there. Then in the on entry, I put SUPPPRINT() and that does work...

Thanks for the direction....

Bill

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Mike's trick will indeed make it unseen, but to totally eliminate it, you'll need to wait for VFP 8.0's NODIALOG option in the REPORT command.

It seems to me I also saw Ed Rauh had a API trick for that also.
Mike Gagnon

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[BillGravell]

Thanks also, Rick. I saw that and am looking forward to the day that 8 is reality.

BTW, the new backcolor property in a command button was requested at last year's DevCon by a programmer in our office...and they actually did it...

Bill

 

[Mike Gagnon]

It didn't work. Realized that the "On Entry" only accepts a logical expression.

So, I created a udf in my program and put your code there. Then in the on entry, I put SUPPPRINT() and that does work...

Sorry about that, my actual code is a call to an external function as well, and I could think how to explain creating a global function.


BTW, the new backcolor property in a command button was requested at last year's DevCon by a programmer in our office...and they actually did it...

Him and a thousand other programmers.


Mike Gagnon

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[rgbean]

Bill,
While this "feature" may have been brought up last year, people have been asking for it since 1995 and VFP 3.0! It's just that it kind of flew in the face of the official MS interface specifications, and so it wasn't even considered. Now because of XP's themes and "skins" in general, user expectations (and MS UI specs) have been altered to allowed this to be acceptable!

Rick