[THIN] Re: Need scripting help
- From: "TheThin" <TheThin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:55:04 -0500
You can enumerate printers to a file very easily via a dos command
script using the "rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry [options]
[@commandfile]" command. Just shell to DOS in your kix script and drop
out a textfile from the rundll32.exe command with all the printers and
then use it for your logic.
I actually did something similar using all DOS by using the the Findstr
command in a script recently. I had not used rundll32.exe previously
but it allows you to use objects from certain .dll files native to
windows. The big plus is that if there is not an object in Kix or WSH a
lot of the time you can find an object in a .dll that does the job -
When I started reading about what Rundll32.exe can do, I pretty much
went "WOW, I didn't think DOS scripts could do that!". =20
Goto
http://www.dx21.com/SCRIPTING/RUNDLL32/ViewItem.ASP?OID=3D145&CMD=3DP%3DA=
to read about rundll32.exe usage.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Rogers [mailto:Andrew.Rogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Posted At: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:04 PM
Posted To: TheThin
Conversation: [THIN] Re: Need scripting help
Subject: [THIN] Re: Need scripting help
Dont know if it would work (initial thoughts say it should ;) ), but the
qu=3D ick and dirty way to do it would be to try and set the default
printer to b=3D e the one you want to delete, check for errors, if there
is one, its not th=3D ere to delete :)
Andrew
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>>> Paul.Stansel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 08/03/04 16:48:35 >>>
Ok, we have a Kix file that queries an ini file and maps user printers.
We're trying to clean up some old mappings, so I set a similar section
in the file using DelPrinterConnection. Works like a champ, reads the
same lines and deletes the print mappings just fine. The problem is
that I want logic to check if the printer actually exists before I go
through the process of deleting it. If it doesn't exist, it pauses for
a while before continuing to process the next deletion. The printer ini
file looks like
this:
=3D20
=3D20
[CBI]
NumberPrinter=3D3D1
printer1=3D3D\\AD2SIMPRT001\HLIEBHOHPL02
printer2=3D3D
printer3=3D3D
printer4=3D3D
=3D20
Is there a way to query the registry for the existence of that printer
before trying to delete it? I was trying to use EnumValue and compare
it to a variable that is the printer name, but it was failing. Just
looking for ideas.
=3D20
Thanks,
Paul
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