No problem Paul. Looking forward to the beer next year ;-)
> On 27 Jul 2016, at 4:43 PM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote:
>
> Monte,
>
> Thank you so much - exactly that - so for LC6.x I added the follow which
> address the problem whether in the IDE or standalone
>
> put the defaultFolder into tSaveDefaultFolder
> if (the environment is "development") then -- IDE
> set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("engine")
> else -- standalone
> set the defaultFolder to appPath()
> end if
>
> -- do my PDF printing
>
> set the defaultFolder to tSaveDefaultFolder
>
> If I every see you at a LiveCode Conference (I have to attend Edinburgh
> via webcast this year), I owe you drinks or a meal or both!
>
>
> On 7/26/2016 11:31 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
>> Hi Paul
>>
>> I bumped into this in a project just before I started working for LiveCode.
>> There’s an issue some of the latter 6.7 releases that requires you to set
>> the default folder to the folder the pdf printer dll is in before opening
>> printing for the first time. I believe this is fixe in LC 8.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Monte
>>> On 26 Jul 2016, at 4:49 PM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have very large application running under LC 6.7.11 for Windows and OSX
>>>
>>> I have code that does an "open printing for PDF", prints a field, and
>>> closes printing. Under OSX this works fine.
>>>
>>> Under Windows, in both the IDE and a standalone, I get an execution
>>> error on the open printing for pdf line with the message:
>>> execution error at line n/a (printing: Unknown destination)
>>>
>>> In the standalone, I might have interpreted this error as that the
>>> "revpdfprinter.dll" did not get added to the standalone, but it is
>>> (although why this dll is placed at the application level and not in the
>>> Externals folder continues to puzzle me).
>>>
>>> I also might have though the file path & name passed to open pritning
>>> for pdf may have been a problem, but I have checked via debugger and the
>>> file path & name is valid, in a writable location, plenty of disk space,
>>> etc. Also tried multiple files and locations, so that is not it
>>>
>>> However the fact that it happens in the IDE completely mystifies me. Can
>>> ANY one tell me what this error really means and what the cause may be?
>>>
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