Printer missing from SetupPrinter dialog

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Printer missing from SetupPrinter dialog

Postby olaeld » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:18 pm

One of our users has experienced a situation where the SetupPrinter dialog did not list all available printers. Upon restarting the application, the printer was listed. Does SetupPrinter somehow cache its list of printers? Is there something that can be done to ensure that all available printers will be listed upon calling SetupPrinter?

We are using VPE 6.10, Professional Edition.
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Re: Printer missing from SetupPrinter dialog

Postby IDEAL Software Support » Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:08 pm

SetupPrinter() calls the Windows API standard Printer Setup Common Dialog. We can not control or change the behaviour of the Common Dialog, since it is a component of the Windows operating system.
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Re: Printer missing from SetupPrinter dialog

Postby olaeld » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:30 am

Thanks for the feedback! Could you please tell which particular method is called (MSDN reference), so I can investigate further?
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Re: Printer missing from SetupPrinter dialog

Postby IDEAL Software Support » Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:28 pm

The name of the called Windows API function is PrintDlg().
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