Supress Driver Dialoge Promt?

Hey,

I am working with a printer, where every time the print command is sent, a prompt pops up asking for a 'filename'

I am trying to find the best way to hide this from the user, I do not want anything to pop up as it makes the main application unusable until the box is closed. I am just unsure how to go about this as it is coming from the printer driver(my guess).

Any suggestions?

More information about the kind of printer and code may help us help you.

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Originally Posted by dbasnett

More information about the kind of printer and code may help us help you.

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I am running a test application and right now this is all the code there is :P

vb.net Code:

Imports System.Drawing.Printing
 
 
Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
 
        Dim x As New PrintDocument
 
        x.Print()
 
    End Sub
End Class

This is what the prompt looks like :

Attachment 99797

The Printer is a wire label printer by Brady

http://www.bradyid.com/bradyid/pdpv/WRAPTOR-PTR.html

It might help if you actually put something in the document to print. The dialog may be the result of it finding nothing to print!

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

It might help if you actually put something in the document to print. The dialog may be the result of it finding nothing to print!

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That is what I thought at first too but the dialogue box, shows up in all applications. The filename is the name that shows up on the printer

Even if I use the Labeling software they provided, after hitting print I am prompted for a 'filename'. Same goes for word, paint etc.

Have you read this?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr....printing.aspx

In the very beginning it says, "Typically, when you print from a Windows Forms application, you create a new instance of the PrintDocument class, set properties, such as DefaultPageSettings and PrinterSettings, that describe how to print, and call the Print method to actually print the document. Calling the PrintDocument.Print method raises the PrintDocument.PrintPage event, which should be handled to perform the document layout for printing.

Use the Graphics property of the PrintPageEventArgs object obtained from the PrintDocument.PrintPage event to specify the output to print. If you are printing a text file, use StreamReader to read one line at a time from the stream and call the DrawString method to draw the line in the graphics object. For more information about this process, see the Graphics and StreamReader classes. You can view an example of printing a text document in the PrintDocument class overview topic."

Weird. In that case I guess it's firmware so I'm not sure that there's any way to do away with it altogether. It may be possible to fill it in automatically using SendKeys but that's gonna depend on how much information you can get on when it shows. Tricky.

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Originally Posted by dbasnett

Have you read this?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr....printing.aspx

In the very beginning it says, "Typically, when you print from a Windows Forms application, you create a new instance of the PrintDocument class, set properties, such as DefaultPageSettings and PrinterSettings, that describe how to print, and call the Print method to actually print the document. Calling the PrintDocument.Print method raises the PrintDocument.PrintPage event, which should be handled to perform the document layout for printing.

Use the Graphics property of the PrintPageEventArgs object obtained from the PrintDocument.PrintPage event to specify the output to print. If you are printing a text file, use StreamReader to read one line at a time from the stream and call the DrawString method to draw the line in the graphics object. For more information about this process, see the Graphics and StreamReader classes. You can view an example of printing a text document in the PrintDocument class overview topic."

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Tried this and same thing.

vb.net Code:

Imports System.Drawing.Printing
 
 
Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
 
        Dim x As New Printing.PrintDocument
 
      
        AddHandler x.PrintPage, AddressOf Me.Printh
        x.PrinterSettings.PrintFileName = "WAE"
        x.Print()
 
        RemoveHandler x.PrintPage, AddressOf Me.Printh
 
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Printh(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal args As Printing.PrintPageEventArgs)
        Static i As Integer = 0
        i = i + 1
 
        args.Graphics.DrawString("TEST ", New Font(Me.Font, FontStyle.Regular), Brushes.Black, 10, 10)
 
   
    End Sub
End Class

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

Weird. In that case I guess it's firmware so I'm not sure that there's any way to do away with it altogether. It may be possible to fill it in automatically using SendKeys but that's gonna depend on how much information you can get on when it shows. Tricky.

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That is my guess too and it is VERY inconvenient.

Ideally, how I want it to work is :

I have a datagridview with a fairly long list. Every time the user changes their selection in the list, a prompt is sent to the printer and the label is ready to print. So to have that pop-up come up and send an escape key every time is the last resort. Will keep messing around with the settings and see if I can take away focus from the pop-up or something

Does Brady have a support forum? Might get better answers there if they do.

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Originally Posted by dbasnett

Does Brady have a support forum? Might get better answers there if they do.

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They dont, but I have been e-mailing their tech support. As of now 'there is no way to bypass that screen'

Hopefully we are able to work something out