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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Defaults in Page Setup dialog--HOW?
Message-ID: <16368@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 22 Mar 91 19:07:15 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.195601.314@husc3.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Electronics for Imaging, San Bruno CA
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In article <1991Mar15.195601.314@husc3.harvard.edu> reiss@husc9.harvard.edu
(Peter Reiss) writes:
>I am writing a program which lets the user print data (bridge scores, but
>that's not important), but rarely, if ever, would one print the data in the
>standard vertical mode, but rather horizontally.  Currently I am calling the
>Page Setup dialog and forcing the user to change to horizontal mode.  Is there
>any way to make this a default in the dialog? Or even change this without
>bringing up the dialog?  Thanks.

To do it from the dialog, read the Tech Note on adding items to the
print dialogs.  Instead of adding any items, just do the hard-way
initialization sequence, and after the dialog is created, walk the
dialog item list or the window control list looking for a button with
the appropriate title.  Then from your item or event filter procedure,
return a fake hit on that button.

This probably seems nastier than it is.  Notice that it should have no
problems even if the print dialog changes (it will be a no-op if it
can't find the right button) and that it can readily be
internationalized.

You *can* change the print record directly, but that is much nastier
and much more sensitive to printer driver changes.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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