on 10/11/02 9:20 AM, Pete Beaumont at furbies@... wrote:

> Back in the old days wasn't it possible to preserve a copy of
> the PRHANDLE, and then get the OS to use it so you could
> remember how a user had the page setup for a particular
> document/file ?


Yes.   Tricky, but possible.  Mars Maxman had a great article on it in
Inside Basic, years ago.   I have no idea if it could be done in X.   The
part that didn't work out as well as I would have liked, was the user had to
store the page setup.   In other words, I checked the metrics of the printer
page and told the user to select...say landscape in the next dialog...and
then store I stored the resource.   If the user just clicked through the
dialog...leaving it portrait, my app would get confused.  I could check
metrics, but was storing portrait in by landscape bucket, etc.   I made this
part of an "easy setup" and overall it worked very well.  I also always
worried that I would try to use the wrong driver.   I checked the
length...technically a poor way of deciding if the stored driver was a
match.   I am sure it could have been executed better, but it was always on
the edge for me.

I gotta say, that was much easier in Win work.  You can just tell the driver
what you want.  (Ducking the rocks, now.)
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Best Wishes,

George
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