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From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Chooser and printers
Message-ID: <2461@spray.CalComp.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 88 13:43:43 GMT
References: <553@cf-cm.UUCP>
Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson)
Organization: CalComp, A Lockheed Company, Hudson, NH, USA
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In article <553@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>How can an application program tell if a user has used the "Chooser"
>to switch printers? Is there a global that records the current choice?

The resource 'STR ' -8192 in the System file records the file name of the
currently chosen printer resource file ("driver").

However, your application shouldn't need to know if a change is made. Anything
it does that might depend on the printer type should be done every time a
print is requested by the user. You certainly shouldn't rely on the name of
the printer to know its type, since names can be changed quite easily.
>
>Thanks, Ralph

I hope this helps.
Ed
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