If no answer here, then where?

[John Fritch]

If one is not able to get a question answered here (or at Code Guru or MSDN news groups), where might one go to get an answer? I have not received answers to my recent questions regarding successful use of the EnumJobs API call or creation of a flag signaling the time that graphics files may be deleted during printing of a web page. Any recommendations for someone who might be able to answer these API-related questions?

John Fritch

[barrk]

Did you post this in the API section of this forum?

[oetje]

Send Microsoft an email.

[Pallex]

Check out some of the newsgroups - get to http://www.deja.com, or http://www.liszt.com and search for `visual basic`. There are a few, i just cant remember the names (microsoft.public.visual.basic & .database i think)

a.

[John Fritch]

Thanks for the replies. They say humor is often the best medicine for frustration/exasperation, and "E-mail Microsoft" is proof of the pudding. Anyway, yes, I did post on both the general and the API-specific threads of VB World and MSDN, and no response. Even Paul Kuliniewicz, the author of VB World's affiliate site VB API, is momentarily stumped. So the questions are apparently more difficult than they might appear.

John Fritch

It's a bit weird, but I usually don't see a lot of replies to printer-related questions.

[kovan]

Dan Appleman's guide to api's
i have the book
its at work thou
and now i am at home

[John Fritch]

Chris Eastwood, the moderator of the CodeGuru VB Programming forum, gave me the following link to a "control [which] shows how to use the printer APIs to get information about printers, printed documents and printer drivers.":
http://www.domaindlx.com/e_morcillo/...od/printer.asp
This is easily the best VB working example of GetPrinter, EnumPrinters, GetJob, EnumJobs, the other related API calls, and the difficult-to-decipher-and-use data structures these calls employ. This example convinced me that my use of these calls is not the source of my problem.

John Fritch