Changing Printer Parameters from an Application

 Last reviewed: February 15, 1996
Article ID: Q51739
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows versions 3.1 and 3.0

SUMMARY

For an application to use the printer most effectively, sometimes it is necessary for the user to modify the printer settings. To accomplish this, an application can activate the settings dialog box for the printer driver of the currently selected printer.

DEVMODE demonstrates how this may be done. Three steps are required:

  1. Load the printer driver.

  2. Get the procedure address of the "DEVICEMODE" procedure exported by the driver.

  3. Call the procedure through the procedure address.

The settings dialog is responsible for obtaining any information from the user and for saving any changes in the appropriate INI file.

Chapter 17 of the "Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit Guide to Programming" provides additional information on this procedure.

Download DEVMODE.EXE, a self-extracting file, from the Microsoft Software Library (MSL) on the following services:

  • Microsoft Download Service (MSDL) 

          Dial (206) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL
      Download DEVMODE.EXE (size: 19689 bytes)
  • Internet (anonymous FTP) 

          ftp ftp.microsoft.com
      Change to the \SOFTLIB\MSLFILES directory
      Get DEVMODE.EXE (size: 19689 bytes)

Additional reference words: 3.10 3.00 softlib
KBCategory: kbprg kbfile
KBSubcategory: GdiPrn

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Last reviewed: February 15, 1996
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