Get property

[moke@napconet.com]

I am having a lot of trouble capturing when a user prints more than 1 copy of a document. When a print job is started I would like to see how many copies the user selected. I've been banging my head with various methods of trying to do this but, keep missing something. Any help would be appreciated.

Below is the code I am using...

To capture print notifications

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Call CoPDFXCview1.SetProperty("Notifications.Print.Filter", -1, 0)

Look for events

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Private Sub CoPDFXCview1_OnEvent(ByVal nType As Long, ByVal Name As String, ByVal DataIn As Variant, DataOut As Variant, ByVal Flags As Long)

Check to see if event is a print notification. If it is check that it is a BeginDocument event and getproperty of Print.copies.

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If nType = 4 And Name = "Notifications.Print" 
Call CoPDFXCview1.GetProperty("Notifications.Print.Type", DataOut, PXCVA_GetNamed)
    If DataOut = "BeginDocument" Then
        Call CoPDFXCview1.GetProperty("Print.Copies", copies, 0)
        MsgBox "copies = " & copies
    End If
End If

The result of this copde returns "0"... And sometimes it seems a print job does not even have a "BeginDocument" notification so the getproperty never fires. I've been on this too long and confusing myself...

[Vasyl-Tracker Dev Team]

Hi, Moke.

The printing module at start creates full copy of the global 'Print' section and works with it during the display of the print-dialog, the printing-process and destroys this copy after it is finished. You cannot access to this copy. So, you can read/write the global 'Print' section only, and make changes here before starting the process of printing.

When a print job is started I would like to see how many copies the user selected.

In next build we can add simple property like this:

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Notifications
   Print
      Copies : int // read-only

Best
Regards.

[moke@napconet.com]

oooohhhhh....

No wonder it seemed so difficult.

How about can I use "onproperty changed"? I played with it and didn't get any results? The event never fired when the copies setting changed... Is it possible to read the print settings from the print dialog and do some math when the user clicks the print button?

like (SheetsCount / PagesCount) = Copies ...? or do I have the same issue because the print process starts when the print "menu" button is clicked and the data is unavailable?

I wonder if I should just use WMI or access print spooler directly. It'll definately be harder that way (at least it'll be harder for me)...
How close is the next build?

[Vasyl-Tracker Dev Team]

Hi, Moke.

The event never fired when the copies setting changed... Is it possible to read the print settings from the print dialog and do some math when the user clicks the print button?

As I say - we use internal copy of global 'Print' section during displaying print-dialog and all printing-process. You don't have any methods to access to it. You cannot get any notifications about changing (by end-user) of this internal/temporary copy. Currently I can suggest only one way: in the next build we can implement additional print event that you can use to change some(not all) options before printing but after closing a print-dialog:

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youreventhandler OnEvent(type, name..)
{
    if ((type == PXCVA_OnNamedNotify) AND (name == "Notifications.Print"))
    {
         int nType = 0;
         pdfViewer.GetProperty(name + ".Type", out nType);
         if (nType == 64) // "Prepare"
         {
             pdfViewer.GetProperty(name + ".Copies"...); // here pdfViewer.SetProperty will be available also
         }
    }
}

[moke@napconet.com]

ok. Thank you

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]