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Capture Printing Command
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| Samuel & Kim Blight 2005-08-29, 7:55 am |
| want to capture a print command, so that when someone prints to the colour
laser, a dialogue box appears and says "Do you really need to print in
colour". If yes is selected, it will print and if no is selected it won't.
I have vb and can create the dialouge box etc, but I can't find out how to
capture the print job and release it based on the decision made...
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks
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| Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] 2005-08-29, 6:55 pm |
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"Samuel & Kim Blight" <samblight@watchdog.net.nz> wrote in message
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> want to capture a print command, so that when someone prints to the colour
> laser, a dialogue box appears and says "Do you really need to print in
> colour". If yes is selected, it will print and if no is selected it
> won't.
> I have vb and can create the dialouge box etc, but I can't find out how to
> capture the print job and release it based on the decision made...
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> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Don't hold your breath. You're dealing with device drivers, which are very
low-level, and chances are good that VB can't get that low-level to
intercept such a thing.
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| Samuel Blight 2005-08-29, 6:55 pm |
| Thanks Jeff,
Surley there must be a system wide approach to be able to make this work.
After all, products like PCounter enable a pop-up box to work that users
then put in a code that the print job is charged against....
Or is this really complex?
Thanks heaps,
Samuel
"Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]" <i.get@enough.spam> wrote in message
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> "Samuel & Kim Blight" <samblight@watchdog.net.nz> wrote in message
> news:uVNTUvHrFHA.4044@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
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> Don't hold your breath. You're dealing with device drivers, which are very
> low-level, and chances are good that VB can't get that low-level to
> intercept such a thing.
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| Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] 2005-08-29, 6:55 pm |
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"Samuel Blight" <samuelb@tpp.ac.nz> wrote in message
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> Surley there must be a system wide approach to be able to make this work.
> After all, products like PCounter enable a pop-up box to work that users
> then put in a code that the print job is charged against....
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> Or is this really complex?
The issue is the language. The program(s) you've seen that do this were most
likely written in C++, not VB.
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