Dave:
I've not been down this road with R:Base, so I'm just throwing stuff out there.
Does (CVAL('PRN_SIZE')) factor in here?
B
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Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printer Tray Selection
From: Dave McCann <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, January 21, 2013 3:31 pm
To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
I hadn't thought about the paper type assignments. Unfortunately, since this application will be used in many different environments, what I'm trying to accomplish is to allow user-defined paper tray assignments for multiple copies of an Invoice by allowing the user to open the printer dialog with PRNSETUP then capture the choices made and saving them in a configuration table. That table is used to lookup the print parameters when they go to print invoices later, so all choices are setup in advance as to where Copy 1 goes, where Copy 2 goes, etc. This is to make the printer/tray setup process as flexible as possible for the user.
To lookup the paper type, there doesn't seem to be an appropriate CVAL parameter to do that, otherwise, I could certainly try that.
The odd thing is, I don't have any trouble getting a specific tray to work (if I enter the name of the tray properly into my table) but I've found the CVAL('PRN_SOURCE') returns "Automatically Select" or in some cases (seems to be printer driver specific) it'll return "UPPER" or "LOWER" but these don't correspond to the naming convention of the Trays in the printer driver (more typical are "TRAY 1" or "TRAY 2" and so on). If I set the tray to "LOWER" prior to using PRINT, goes to wrong tray, but if I set the tray to "TRAY 2" then it'll work.
At this point, I will just have the user manually enter the Tray name into my configuration table, they'll have to validate the name themselves.
Maybe this is just something Team R:base needs to look at.
On 1/21/2013 12:08 PM, Bruce Chitiea wrote:
TMBNHNT:
I had a similar situation with another (non-RBase) app printing to a dual-tray Epson WF-7520. No matter my selection, the job always printed from the default tray (Tray #1).
After assigning paper size to tray at the printer's on-board control panel, the printing application requires only specification of the paper size. The job always finds the correct tray.
Does the printer have an on-board control panel at which you can assign paper size to tray?
BruceSafeSectors, Inc.eCondoMetrics
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printer Tray Selection
From: Dave McCann <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, January 18, 2013 4:41 pm
To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
I'm trying to use PRNSETUP and CVAL to allow user to select and save
printer tray configurations for specific reports.
PRNSETUP
SET VAR vprnname=(CVAL('CURRENTPRINTER'))
SET VAR vprntray=(CVAL('PRN_SOURCE'))
The values returned into vprnname and vprntray are then stored in a
table and used with the print later, however, my vprntray ALWAYS returns
"Automatically Select" as the value, now matter how the printer settings
are changed. I'm using 9.5 32-bit latest release, I may be losing my
mind but at one point I was sure this process worked as I wanted.
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Dave McCann
Classic Micro Systems
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