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How to get the devmode of a printer from the windows api

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Dirk Schmitz - Sandra Sziede

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Apr 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/20/98
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Hello,my name is Dirk, and i am from germany. I am working with VB 4.0 and
WIN 95, i am using a OCX for tables. These OCX switched the printer back to
A4 (from A3) every time i made a printout. The documentation says that you
can set a devmode structure to these OCX but i did not get it.

Description
Reads and writes the Windows API DEVMODE printer structure.

Syntax

F1Book1.PrintDevMode [ = devmode ]

Part Type Description
devmode OLE_HANDLE Handle to a DEVMODE structure.

EXAMPLE:
typedef struct _devicemode {// dvmd
BCHAR dmDeviceName[32];WORD dmSpecVersion;
WORD dmDriverVersion;WORD dmSize;
WORD dmDriverExtra;DWORD dmFields;
short dmOrientation;short dmPaperSize;
short dmPaperLength;short dmPaperWidth;
short dmScale;short dmCopies;
short dmDefaultSource;short dmPrintQuality;
short dmColor;short dmDuplex;
short dmYResolution;short dmTTOption;
short dmCollate;BCHAR dmFormName [32];
DWORD dmLogPixels;DWORD dmBitsPerPel;
DWORD dmPelsWidth;DWORD dmPelsHeight;
DWORD dmDisplayFlags;DWORD dmDisplayFrequency;
} DEVMODE;

I copy the devmode type from the windows api to my projekt:

DIM SetDevMode as DEVMODE

Type DEVMODE
dmDeviceName As String * CCHDEVICENAME
dmSpecVersion As Integer
dmDriverVersion As Integer
dmSize As Integer
dmDriverExtra As Integer
dmFields As Long
dmOrientation As Integer
dmPaperSize As Integer
dmPaperLength As Integer
dmPaperWidth As Integer
dmScale As Integer
dmCopies As Integer
dmDefaultSource As Integer
dmPrintQuality As Integer
dmColor As Integer
dmDuplex As Integer
dmYResolution As Integer
dmTTOption As Integer
dmCollate As Integer
dmFormName As String * CCHFORMNAME
dmUnusedPadding As Integer
dmBitsPerPel As Integer
dmPelsWidth As Long
dmPelsHeight As Long
dmDisplayFlags As Long
dmDisplayFrequency As Long
End Type

after the start i wont to read the devmode:

setdevmode=f1book1.printdevmode

the system returns with different data types

if somebody can help me ....... please!!

hhu...@osc.state.ny.us

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Apr 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/22/98
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You may try to use the printer object to do this. The printer object does a
lot things and save you time to deal with the API.


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