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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What printer's selected?
Message-ID: <0B010004.agzs7a@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 91 02:36:41 GMT
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Organization: Peirce Software
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In article <312@crucible.UUCP>, al@crucible.UUCP (Al Evans) writes:
> 
> Unavoidably, I need to find out from an application what printer is
> currently selected. Maybe I'm just being brain-dead, but I can't
> seem to find any "legal" way. The closest I've come up with is to
> get the h & v resolutions from a PrGeneral call, and make an
> educated guess based on the results. But this seems kinda clunky:-)
> Am I just missing something obvious? 

Get the STR resource with ID = -8192.  This is the name of currently
selected printer.  I'm not sure if names like "LaserWriter" or "ImageWriter"
change on international systems?

-- michael

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