Re: [LINUX5250] NEW FEATURE: Print Screens

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> If I try to print I get the error "StartDoc() ended in error".  Looking
> at the source this is when the call to StartDoc() fails.  I added in a
> call to GetLastError, and it comes back as error 3003.  Looking this
> error code up at msdn it says "A StartDocPrinter call was not issued.".

Strange.   According to the docs I have here, you either need StartDoc()
*or* StartDocPrinter().   The difference is whether you plan to use GDI
calls, or whether you plan to output the printer's escape codes directly.

lp5250d, for example, outputs the escape codes directly because it gets
them from the AS/400's Host Print Transform function...    tn5250 is using
the GDI calls, so uses StartDoc.

>  Looking at the source I don't see a call to that function.  Should
> there be one?  I won't claim to know anything, but if StartDocPrinter
> isn't needed, any ideas why I get this error?
>

No, I have no idea why you get that error.   It works nicely on my system,
obviously...   I've run it at home, where I have a Win XP Pro machine with
a Canon BJC620 printer, and at work where I've got a WinXP Pro with an
HP LaserJet 4L, and also other various HP Lasers on the LAN.   Works with
all of them.

Is this a difference between XP and earlier Windows?

Or, maybe there's a variable somewhere that I'm not initializing that's
causing the device handle that's returned from the PrintDlg function to
have problems sporadically?

I wonder if there's any way I can reproduce this problem, so I can
research it further?