Question on SetupPrinter return values

[EthicsGradient]

Hi,

I need to be able to select a destination print device and interrogate that device prior to printing (for unprintable areas etc), using the VPE ActiveX object in Visual FoxPro.

The basic way I was going to do this is:

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WITH VPEDoc

   IF .SetupPrinter("", PRINT_ALWAYS) = 0     

      * user selected OK
      .SetPrinter(.DevPrinterOffsetX, .DevPrinterOffsetY)
      .PrintDoc(FALSE)   

   ENDIF

ENDWITH


The problem is that, if I use "", SetupPrinter() returns 3, which indicates "I/O problems during write of setup file" as opposed to 0 for OK.

I don't need to write a setup file as I merely need to get the user to selected the device before I run the print job, which I can't do with PrintDoc(TRUE).

Can I safely ignore this error code or is there a better way to go about this ?

regards,
Matt.

[IDEAL Software Support]

SetupPrinter() should return 0 in this case. It will be fixed in the next release.

You can safely ignore the return code "3" when specifying an empty file name.