[RESOLVED] How to determine if a printer is connected and available

[Bonnie West]

@ camoore

When you step through that code, what is the value of PRINTER_INFO_6? I'm assuming that a value of 0 means that the printer is "ready", as suggested in the Getting the status of the selected printer from Visual Basic article:

Public Enum Printer_Status
   PRINTER_STATUS_READY = &H0

There isn't actually a constant like that defined anywhere in the Windows header files. Like the author of that article, we're both assuming that if no other bit (the PRINTER_INFO_6's dwStatus member is, in fact, a bit field) is set, then it probably means that the printer is ready. You may want to see which bits are really set when you call that function.



EDIT

BTW, the MSDN doc describes the meaning of each constant whose values are enumerated in the Merrion article. The ampersand (&) after the numeric literals in my code forces VB6 to treat them as Longs instead of Integers so that no run time conversion needs to take place.