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Hi !

First I want to thank everyone who answered my last post...

This time I have a (at last for me) completely new problem: how do I
configure a printer driver from the outside?

Or to be more specifically: I want to change the windows default
printer on-the-fly. That's not to hard, simply change the
device=... in the [windows] section of the win.ini and send the
appropiate WM_WININICHANGE-message (BTW: do I have to send the message
for "devices" *and* "windows" as control.exe does it ?). But how do I tell
a postscript-driver to write his output to a specific file? Easy (I
thought) simply change the "EpsFile=..." line in the right printer
section (e.g. [Apple LaserWriter Plus,FILE]), and send the
WM_WININICHANGE-message again... That sounds good, but is not
sufficient, control.exe sends a WM_DEVMODECHANGE-message with lParam
set to the driver's name (e.g. "Apple LaserWriter Plus"). OK, I wrote
this into my prog.

This is a small piece of it (VString is a string class of the toolkit
we use in out lab.):

class OSUtil {
        static const char*      win_section;
        static const char*      win_device;
        static const char*      prt_section;
        static const char*      dev_section;
        static const char*      ausgabe_datei;

        void                    getPortAndDriver(const char* prtName,
                                                 VString& port, VString& driver);
  public:
        void            setPrinter(const char* prtName);
        void            setPrintOutputFile(const char* printer, const char* name);

Quote:};

const char*
OSUtil::win_section="Windows";
const char*
OSUtil::win_device="device";
const char*
OSUtil::prt_section="PrinterPorts";
const char*
OSUtil::dev_section="devices";
const char*
OSUtil::ausgabe_datei="EpsFile";

void
OSUtil::getPortAndDriver(const char* prtName, VString& port, VString& driver)
{
        char            buf1[200];
        char*           d;
        char*           p;
        VString         def("??");

        GetProfileString(prt_section, prtName, def.gets(), buf1, sizeof(buf1));

        d=strtok(buf1,",");
        p=strtok(NULL,",");
        p=strtok(p,":");
        driver=d;
        port=p;

        port.toUpper();
#ifdef DEBUG
        errout.message("OSUtil::getPortAndDriver:");
        errout.message("    printer: \"%s\"", prtName);
        errout.message("    driver \"%s\", port: \"%s\"", driver.gets(), port.gets());
#endif

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#endif

void
OSUtil::setPrinter(const char* prtName)
{
        VString         driver;
        VString         port;
        VString         towrite((char*)prtName);

        getPortAndDriver(prtName,port,driver);

        towrite+=",";
        towrite+=driver;
        towrite+=",";
        towrite+=port;
        towrite+=":";
#ifdef DEBUG
        boolean         ret;

        errout.message("OSUtil::setPrinter(\"%s\")",prtName);
        ret=
#endif
        WriteProfileString(win_section,win_device,towrite);
#ifdef DEBUG
        errout.message(" WriteProfileString(\"%s\", \"%s\", \"%s\")==%d",
                       win_section, win_device, towrite.gets(), ret);
#endif
        SendMessage(0xFFFF,WM_WININICHANGE,0,(DWORD)dev_section);
        SendMessage(0xFFFF,WM_WININICHANGE,0,(DWORD)win_section);

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void
OSUtil::setPrintOutputFile(const char* printer, const char* name)
{
        VString         driver;
        VString         port;
        VString         towrite((char*)printer);

        getPortAndDriver(printer,port,driver);

        towrite+=",";
        towrite+=port;

#ifdef DEBUG
        boolean         ret;

        errout.message("OSUtil::setPrintOutputFile(\"%s\", \"%s\")",printer, name);
        ret=
#endif
        WriteProfileString(towrite.gets(),ausgabe_datei,name);

#ifdef DEBUG
        errout.message(" WriteProfileString(\"%s\", \"%s\", \"%s\")==%d",
                       towrite.gets(), ausgabe_datei, name, ret);
#endif
        SendMessage(0xFFFF,WM_DEVMODECHANGE,0,(DWORD)printer);

        SendMessage(0xFFFF,WM_WININICHANGE,0,(DWORD)dev_section);
        SendMessage(0xFFFF,WM_WININICHANGE,0,(DWORD)win_section);
        SendMessage(0xFFFF,WM_WININICHANGE,0,(DWORD)towrite.gets());

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But despite all hopes this does *not* work :(((

Has anybody any suggestions to this? I'm getting frustrated because
control.exe is able to do things that I can't...

Any help is appreciated !

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        -- Jens --
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