CommonDialog printer?

[rjlohan]

I'm using the CommonDialog.ShowPrinter method in an application, and strangely, the printer dialog doesn't always appear. Sometimes, though the code runs, I never see the printer dialog...?


Any tips?

[aldinator]

what is ur code?

[rjlohan]

CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter




It's under a menu item, and that's all there is...

[aldinator]

well the code works so something strange is going on... maybe it shows but other code call attention to ur form and makes the dialog kinda invisible?

[rjlohan]

I thought that, but the dialog is bigger than the form, and it doesn't appear behind it - I checked...

[aldinator]

and ur sure the code is executing?? use this to test whats going on

MsgBox "Start"
CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter
MsgBox "Finish"

[rjlohan]

Everytime I step through it, no probs.

I often have this problem with VB. When the code is running, various things just don't happen. But when I put in debug statements, or step through, it works....

[Pc_Madness]

Chuck in some doevents maybe?

[James Stanich]

Sounds screwy but try this. Cut your code form your project, sub by sub and paste in a texfile. Save your project. Post your code back from the text file, but rearrange the sub order. I had this similiar problem awhile ago, and when debugging the code seemed to jump all over, and bypass certain areas of code. After I did this, it seems to fix it (some possible bug)?

[rjlohan]

Will give this a try.

Cheers

[James Stanich]

No problem