How do I know that the print event occurs when i actually print ???

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Savvoulidis Iordanis

What I want to do is to figure out that I actually print on the printer ( so that later I do other stuff, like update printing date fields in the DB)
But the print event also occurs when I just preview or when I change the print margins from the access environment menus that I
insert into my app.

What can I do?

TIA
 
Savvoulidis said:
What I want to do is to figure out that I actually print on the printer ( so that later I do other stuff, like update printing date fields in the DB)
But the print event also occurs when I just preview or when I change the print margins from the access environment menus that I
insert into my app.

What can I do?
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Not much, the computer can not tell if the printer actually
printed anything or, if it did, if it was usable.

You need to come up with a scheme for the users to indicate
that the report should be printed (possibly as simple as the
print button on a form setting the print date), but allow
for them to go back and print it again if something went
wrong.
 
No, no,
I mean I just want to know that the report is actually sent to the printer
(or maybe spooler) and not only previewed
 
Savvoulidis said:
No, no,
I mean I just want to know that the report is actually sent to the printer
(or maybe spooler) and not only previewed
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Well, you can tell if the report was opened for preview by
setting a module level variable in the report's Activate
event and testing it in some other later event. But this
won't be able to tell you if the report was sent to the
printer from the preview window.
 
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