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DOC: PRINTER_DEFAULTS Contains an Incorrectly Typed Member

Article ID: 183852

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003

Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
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SUMMARY

The API Text Viewer shows the pDevMode member of the PRINTER_DEFAULTS user- defined type as DEVMODE user-defined type. If you pass this member to another Windows API to control a printer, the API works correctly only under Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, but not under Windows NT or Windows 2000. The pDevMode member should be declared as a long.

MORE INFORMATION

The following is the correct type declaration for the PRINTER_DEFAULTS user- defined type:

   Type PRINTER_DEFAULTS
      pDatatype As String
      pDevMode As Long
      pDesiredAccess As Long
   End Type

REFERENCES

To learn more about the API Text Viewer, on the Visual Basic 5.0 Help menu, click Books Online. In the Find text box, enter the search criterion "api" (without the quotation marks). The first item under the Visual Basic Books Online node is the topic "Accessing the Microsoft Windows API."

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