How can I determine the current view?

[Hugo Lengweiler]

Hello,

I have programmed an event-handler for the PRINT-event . How can I determine
whether the view of the report is "print" or "preview"? There is no property
"CurrentView" like it is for forms. None of the properties of the report
differ in the two views.

Thanks in advance
Hugo

 

[Allen Browne]

That's right. Access does not expose this for you.

There is a difference: the Activate event fires only if the report is opened
in Preview mode. Could you use this event to set a module level boolean
variable to True, and then read this flag when you needed to know?

 

[Hugo Lengweiler]

Hello Allen,

Thanks for your hint. Unfortunately it doesn't help me. In the
PRINT-event-handler I want to do an action only if the report is really
printed and not only previewed. Is there an event that signals "printing
started" or something similar?

 

[SA]

Hugo:

No, unfortunately, there is no event that actually occurs when the report is
sent to a printer. Even if a report is actually sent to a printer, there's
no (easy) way to determine if there's been a successful output from the
printer.