Firebirdracer14

Ok I am just starting out and trying several different things one thing that I am confused about is visual basic printing. Say I give a command like

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Printer.Print "Hello"
Printer.Print "Goodbye"
End Sub

Once the button is clicked my little printer icon in the taskbar pops up and it says printer is spooling and I am confused to what this means?

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Pizentios

Under Windows 98 and above (i think) before your document is sent to the printer it gets cashed in your printers spooler and fed slowly into the printer. Not sure why it's like this, since i have mine set to print directly to the printer and i notice no difference.

VB has very basic printing support, so if your trying to gen reports froma db or something your going to have a hard time getting it to look nice. If you want something a little nicer (and free since most VB printing objects cost money) check out Qprinter2. I used it for a version fo my inventory program, till i switched to a better language.

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Rory

You normally need to
to actually start the printing, though I believe it does start when you do NewPage() - spooling means it's still awaiting the document to complete.