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Re: Shell to print

From	Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: Shell to print
Date	2011-05-06 08:57 +0100
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 06/05/2011 00:36, D&JG wrote:
> Thanks, guys, for your replies.  I can't remember where I found the original
> code but it has been very useful when copy/pasting, from one program to
> another, whenever a Word .doc needed printing.  My latest thinking is that
> it might relate to Win 7 and Office 7 together not recognising what is
> required.  Works fine in XP with Office 7 and Office 10.
>
> More code detail might give insight...
>
<SNIP CODE>

But, as I asked last time, what values are you passing?
How does it fail?
Does right click, print work?

> 'the desktop will be the
> 'default for error messages
> hWndDesk = GetDesktopWindow()
>
> 'execute the passed operation
> success = ShellExecute(hWndDesk, sTopic, sFile, sParams, sDirectory,
> nShowCmd)

Oh, and there is no need to send the desktop window so that function can 
be removed leaving you with simply:
ShellExecute 0, "print", documentname, "", "", SW_SHOWDEFAULT

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Dee Earley (dee.earley@icode.co.uk)
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