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Gilbert wrote:
I started doing some testing with your Printer functions.

It works fine except for WinDefPrn(). Works well with 98, 98SE and ME but not for 2000. Did`nt check XP yet...

When I looked at Windows 2000 register HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG,
System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers has no value in `Default`
So it`s returning nothing. Thus not detecting the default printer.

I will check for XP tonight to see if there is any differences.

I closely examined the register and could not figure out if this information was present. But I tought it was hidden somewhere esle.

I also have another question. Is it possible, from the Windows register, to somehow detect what type of printer it correspond to.
ex.: Laser, InkJet, Dot Matrix or Thermal.

Gilbert wrote:Hi Barada,

I did more searching, specialy in XP registers, and find out that there is two places were available printers can be found:

For two shared printers installed on a station running Windows 98:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\COntrol\Print\Printers

and

For two shared printers installed on a station running Windows 2000:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections

Seems that shared printers from 98 technologie are stored elsewhere than for NT technologie. Is it possible for you to confirm my findings ?

Also discovered that under XP it is possible to retreive printers capabilities directly from the registers.

These capabilities are:

printBinNames Array of paper bins
printCollate Binary of collate type
printDuplexSupport Binary of type of duplex
printMaxResolutionSupported Binary of maximum resolution
printMediaSupported Array of paper sizes
printOrientationSupported Array of orientations

They can be found under:

For two shared printers installed on a station running Windows 98:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\<PRINTERNAME>\DsDriver

and

For two shared printers installed on a station running Windows 2000:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\LanMan Print Services\Servers\<SERVERNAME>\Printers<PRINTERNAME>\DsDriver

Is it also possible for you to confirm these findings ?

In the later <SERVERNAME> can be anything depending on wich server we are attached to. Is it possible, from the register, to retreive the server to wich a station is attached to ?

I also would like Antonio to get invole in this thread. It would be most helpfull.

Gilbert wrote:Hi Badara,


I did more searching and found out that the printer capabilities available under 2000 and XP cannot be found anywhere in Windows 98.

Could you validate this ?

******************
FUNCTION WinDevMode(cNomImpr)
******************
* Retourne le contenu DevMode en allant le chercher dans le registre Windows
* (regedit.exe)

* Inutilisée pour le moment (conversion en données compréhensibles à faire
* pour le contenu récupéré )

LOCAL cDevMode := ""
LOCAL oReg := TReg32():New(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,;
"System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers" + STRTRAN(cNomImpr, "", ","))
IF oReg:nError = 0
  cDevMode := oReg:Get("Default DevMode", "")
ENDIF
oReg:Close()
oReg := NIL
RETURN cDevMode