SetDefaultPrinter Method

Description

Assigns a remote printer the role od Default Printer.

PowerBASIC Syntax

METHOD SetDefaultPrinter ( _

BYVAL bstrPrinterName AS STRING _

)

Arguments

bstrPrinterName

BSTR. The remote printer UNC's name.

Remarks

The SetDefaultPrinter method fails when using a DOS-based printer connection. You cannot use the SetDefaultPrinter method to determine the name of the current default printer.

Example [PowerBASIC]

#INCLUDE "WSHOM.INC"

DIM pWshNetwork AS IWshNetwork

DIM bstrLocalName AS STRING

DIM bstrRemoteName AS STRING

pWshNetwork = NEWCOM "WScript.Network"

bstrLocalName = UCODE$("LPT1")

bstrRemoteName = UCODE$("\\Server\Print1")

pWshNetwork.AddConnection(bstrLocalName, bstrRemoteName)

pWshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter UCODE$("\\research\library1")

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