PRINT SPOOLER

[jamiedean]

Hi Anyone !!!

I'm having major trouble trying to get the current Jobs being spooled to the printer, i also need to get the Printer which its spooling on.

I've been using EnumJobs the API Call and i can't get it to reteive info on the print/Spooling jobs


Please help

Thanks!!!

Jamie

[John Fritch]

Jamie,

Let me commiserate with you. See my post, "Can Printer Software Usurp EnumJobs and GetPrinter," which appears about one page before your post. If you haven't already downloaded and examined the code offered at the URL cited in my post, do so. It's the best I've found in several days of searching. (Actually, Chris Eastwood, moderator of the CodeGuru VB forum found it for me.) The information at http://www.vbapi.com is also very helpful, particularly regarding general concepts, but the examples provided sometimes are not rigorously accurate. The use of these API calls and their data structures within Visual Basic is decidedly non-obvious and non-trivial, and there's a lot of misinformation about them on the internet.

Anyway, your situation might be exactly the same as mine. If it's true that printer software can nulify the effectiveness of Windows print spooler API functions, those functions are all but worthless for generally distributed applications. I'm trying to figure out alternatives.

John Fritch