visual basic question

[Tsakali]

I'm looking to simply have a button that browses for a printer, or browses only the printers... I can't find any help on this.

My program requires for a user to be able to choose a printer, or more specificaly the user needs to specify the printer location/address, and I figured a browser would be helpful, if not expected in this day and age

[R00k]

I've hunted down a ton of VB stuff for printers at work. If you haven't gotten anything by then, I'll post some links up tomorrow.

[Tsakali]

thanx for helping a rookie out :icon30:

[Tsakali]

good day rook :icon25:

[Cool Blue]

You would have to write your own 'browser' to do that. May I ask what's wrong with using the default printer?

If the user already has the printers installed (drivers), using a simple printpreviewdialog() object will allow them to select which printer they want to print to.

[Cool Blue]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... stopic.asp

[Tsakali]

that website is a nightmare to browse. Thanx anyway.

[bitWISE]

If the user already has the printers installed (drivers), using a simple printpreviewdialog() object will allow them to select which printer they want to print to.

That's what I was going to say. The print dialog is so common there had to be a built in control you could add.

[Denz]

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    Dim frm As New frmPreview

    Dim CD As mscomdlg.CommonDialog
    Set CD = frmPreview.CommonDialog1

    CD.CancelError = True
    On Error Resume Next

    CD.ShowPrinter

    If Err.Number = 32755 Then Exit Function

    On Error GoTo 0

        Printer.Orientation = cdlLandscape

    If preview Then
        Set PRN = frmPreview
    Else
        Set PRN = Printer
        If PRN Is Nothing Then
            Exit Function
        End If
    End If

You will probably need to ICQ me if you have any problems with this, I have this on one of the programs that I created.

I can give you more if you need it. It works great here.

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