BUG: Printer Dialog Does Not Show for Common Dialog Control

Article ID: Q152752
Creation Date: 21-JUN-1996
Revision Date: 17-OCT-1996

The information in this article applies to:

Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

If the Common Dialog control is used to invoke an Open dialog box, and a file is selected from that Open dialog box, and then the Printer dialog box is invoked using the same Common Dialog control, the Printer dialog does not appear.

WORKAROUND

The workaround is to reset the Flags property of the Common Dialog control to zero (0) after showing the Open dialog box.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps To Reproduce Problem

Start a new project. Form1 is created by default.

Place a Common Dialog control on the form, and two Command buttons.

In the Click event for Command1, place the following code:

      Private Sub Command1_Click()


         CommonDialog1.filename = "*.mdb"
         CommonDialog1.ShowOpen
      End Sub

In the Click event for Command2, place the following code:

      Private Sub Command2_Click()


         CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter
      End Sub

Run the project by pressing the F5 key. Click on the first Command button to show the Open dialog box, select any .MDB file (such as Biblio.mdb in the \VB directory), and then click on the second command button to show the Printer dialog box.
Note that the Printer dialog box does not appear.

To work around this problem, change the code in the click event of the second Command button to:

   Private Sub Command2_Click()
      CommonDialog1.Flags = 0
      CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter
   End Sub

Now the printer dialog box correctly shows even after the Open dialog has been displayed.

KBCategory: kbprg kbbuglist
KBSubcategory: PrgOther
Additional reference words: 4.00 vb4win vb4all

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