Return Default Windows printer in script

Thanks Salma,

This works....but only on an OS with WinXP. Do you know something for Win2000 (wincc 6.0 sp3)? I think something is going wrong with the computername in Win200 with this script but I'm not sure.

Or some other solution?

thanks in advance,

Jaap

Hi

Here is a c-script with two methods, depending on which OS you are using (remove one of the methods from the code).

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#include "apdefap.h"

#pragma code("kernel32.dll")
DWORD GetProfileStringA( LPCTSTR lpAppName, LPCTSTR lpKeyName, LPCTSTR lpDefault, LPTSTR lpReturnedString, DWORD nSize);
#pragma code()

#pragma code("winspool.drv")
BOOL GetDefaultPrinterA( LPTSTR pszBuffer, LPDWORD pcchBuffer);
#pragma code()

char * GetDefaultPrinter()
{
char szDefaultPrinter[1023];
DWORD dwSize;

// Previous (NT4/ME/98) & Current versions
GetProfileStringA("windows", "device", "", szDefaultPrinter, sizeof(szDefaultPrinter) - 1);
printf("GetProfileString: %s\r\n", szDefaultPrinter);

// Win 2000 & XP Only
GetDefaultPrinterA(NULL, &dwSize);
GetDefaultPrinterA(szDefaultPrinter, &dwSize);
printf("GetDefaultPrinter: %s\r\n", szDefaultPrinter);

return (szDefaultPrinter);
}
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