paradox, Setting Printer Options

James Hargreav
#1 / 5

Setting Printer Options

Is there any way to set a printer to 'manual feed' using OPAL? I can
only think that using the sendKeys() method will work, but it could
get bogged down depending on the printer...

Any help would be appreciated.

James

Sat, 30 May 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Joris Teunisse
#2 / 5

Setting Printer Options

Quote:

>Is there any way to set a printer to 'manual feed' using OPAL? I can
>only think that using the sendKeys() method will work, but it could
>get bogged down depending on the printer...

I 've struggled with this problem for a while. I finally came out by
a shareware library called Palapi. It found it on the internet in a
self-extracting file called PAPI19.EXE, maybe they now have PAPI20.EXE ?

It had a good routine called printerListen() or something like that.

Joris Teunissen

Sat, 30 May 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Sushil Kambampa
#3 / 5

Setting Printer Options

Quote:

>Is there any way to set a printer to 'manual feed' using OPAL? I can
>only think that using the sendKeys() method will work, but it could
>get bogged down depending on the printer...

method setManual()
var
po PrinterOptionInfo
endVar

po.DefaultSource = prnManual
if printerSetOptions(po) then
return
else
errorShow("Could not set printer options. Don't ask me why.");
endIf
endmethod

Mon, 01 Jun 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Joris Teunisse
#4 / 5

Setting Printer Options

Quote:

>>Is there any way to set a printer to 'manual feed' using OPAL? I can
>>only think that using the sendKeys() method will work, but it could
>>get bogged down depending on the printer...
>method setManual()
> var
> po PrinterOptionInfo
> endVar

> po.DefaultSource = prnManual
> if printerSetOptions(po) then
> return
> else
> errorShow("Could not set printer options. Don't ask me why.");
> endIf
>endmethod

I should work according to you and the Paradox manual, but it doesn't doe
it with me.

Joris Teunissen

Tue, 02 Jun 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Bob Barro
#5 / 5

Setting Printer Options

Quote:

>>Is there any way to set a printer to 'manual feed' using OPAL? I can
>>only think that using the sendKeys() method will work, but it could
>>get bogged down depending on the printer...
>method setManual()
> var
> po PrinterOptionInfo
> endVar
> po.DefaultSource = prnManual
> if printerSetOptions(po) then
> return
> else
> errorShow("Could not set printer options. Don't ask me why.");
> endIf
>endmethod
>Sushil
>--

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The above works only in pdoxwin 5.0

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Thu, 04 Jun 1998 03:00:00 GMT