Re: Setting Default Printer
Jones, Becky wrote: > Im trying to do this on the client. I want to present them with a list > of their printers and have them select which one they want as a default. not with CFX_EnumPrinters you aren't, it's for server side. ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188974 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Setting Default Printer
> Im trying to do this on the client. Oh, and I don't think you'll be able to do this in a cross-platform way. A Windows Script solution will only work for people using Windows and Internet Explorer. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188954 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Setting Default Printer
> Im trying to do this on the client. I want to present them with a list > of their printers and have them select which one they want as a default. Well, to be perfectly honest, I think this is a bad thing to do from within a web page. The user's computer has perfectly good mechanisms to do this already. If you simply use JavaScript to open the standard printer dialog from within your application, the user will be able to print your web page just like she'd print from any other application. If you still wish to continue, you could presumably do what you want by placing that VBScript within your page to run on the client. You will not be able to do this purely with server-side code. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188953 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Setting Default Printer
Im trying to do this on the client. I want to present them with a list of their printers and have them select which one they want as a default. -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Setting Default Printer > Does anyone know how to set a default printer from a list of prints > shown in a webpage? im using the tag to enumerate > the printers, but im not sure how to allow the user to pick the default. Are you trying to set a default printer on the server or on the client? Presumably, your CFX custom tag lists printers on the server, not the client. You could run the VBScript code you posted from a command shell using CFEXECUTE, or adapt the code somewhat to make it available as a WSH COM object, although I've had limited success in using Windows Script from CFMX to control printers and would try to avoid doing that if I could. Instead, you could simply track the printer choice that the user made and force server print jobs to use that printer within your own code. Finally, keep in mind that the server will only be able to have one default printer, so if one user changes it to printer A and another changes it to printer B, someone's going to be disappointed. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188946 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Setting Default Printer
> Does anyone know how to set a default printer from a list of prints > shown in a webpage? im using the tag to enumerate > the printers, but im not sure how to allow the user to pick the default. Are you trying to set a default printer on the server or on the client? Presumably, your CFX custom tag lists printers on the server, not the client. You could run the VBScript code you posted from a command shell using CFEXECUTE, or adapt the code somewhat to make it available as a WSH COM object, although I've had limited success in using Windows Script from CFMX to control printers and would try to avoid doing that if I could. Instead, you could simply track the printer choice that the user made and force server print jobs to use that printer within your own code. Finally, keep in mind that the server will only be able to have one default printer, so if one user changes it to printer A and another changes it to printer B, someone's going to be disappointed. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188945 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Setting Default Printer
Does anyone know how to set a default printer from a list of prints
shown in a webpage? im using the tag to enumerate
the printers, but im not sure how to allow the user to pick the default.
i found a script do this with vbscript, but i want to do it in a
webpage:
any help is appreciated!
thank you in advance. :)
Sub DefaultPrinter
Dim Text, Title, i, j, tmp, printer
Dim Network, oDevices
' Create a new Network object to access Network properties
Set Network = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
' Read all printers
Set oDevices = Network.EnumPrinterConnections
Text = "Available printers" & vbCRLF
For i = 0 To oDevices.Count-1 Step 2
j = i
Text = Text & (i / 2) & vbTab
Text = Text & oDevices(i) & vbTab & oDevices(i+1) & vbCRLF
Next
' Show all available printers and allow a user selection
tmp = InputBox (Text,"Set default printer",0)
printer = oDevices(tmp * 2) ' select printer name
' Set the default printer
Network.SetDefaultPrinter printer
MsgBox "Set Default printer to " & printer, _
vbOkonly + vbInformation, Title
Set Network = Nothing
End Sub
DefaultPrinter
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