Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!tod From: tod@parsely.uucp (Tod Oace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: 4D - how to turn off "Print Settings" dialogs? Summary: PRINT SELECTION(*) Message-ID: <1990Dec3.194908.27063@parsely.uucp> Date: 3 Dec 90 19:49:08 GMT References: <8343@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Reply-To: tod@parsely.UUCP (Tod Oace) Organization: The Affiliates' Complex Lines: 19 In article <8343@dog.ee.lbl.gov> wbrown@beva.bev.lbl.gov (Bill Brown) writes: >I'm working on an application that prints reports. There doesn't seem >to be any method of preventing the Print Setting dialogs from happening >every time I do "PRINT SELECTION()" even tho I invoked "PAGE SETUP()" >ahead of time. I really don't want the user to have to deal with >dialogs every time the application tries to print a report via >"PRINT SELECTION()". Try "PRINT SELECTION(*)". That should take care of it. Also, when using the "*", PRINT SELECTION does the PAGE SETUP() for you, so you don't need to do it. Check the Language Reference manual under PRINT SELECTION for Acius's explanation about it. > -bill > wlbrown@lbl.gov -- Tod Oace (tod@parsely.UUCP) ...!tektronix.TEK.COM!percy!parsely!tod