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From: phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Chooser and printers
Message-ID: <3579@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Oct 88 12:28:45 GMT
References: <553@cf-cm.UUCP>
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Organisation: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University

In article <553@cf-cm.UUCP>, ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk 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?
> 
Well, the System file contains a STR resource numbered -8192 that contains
the name of the currently chosen printer.  Since System is open all the
time from your application you should just be able to use GetResource to
get a handle to the string and then double dereference it to get the string
itself. (I think)

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> Dr Ralph Martin
> Department of Computing Mathematics