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WORKS: switch default printer upon hotkey trigger

 
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controlfreak



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:21 pm    Post subject: WORKS: switch default printer upon hotkey trigger Reply with quote
Idea

Thanks to Sean and his great idea, I could think of a solution to switch my default printer within a given list (of, in this case, 2 printers).

Of course, you could think of something like cycling through a whole array of printers.

Code:
LWin & PrintScreen::

Printer1 = Minotaurus   ; change according to your Printer1
Printer2 = Adobe PDF   ; change according to your Printer2

If (GetDefaultPrinter() = Printer1)
{
   SetDefaultPrinter(Printer2)
}
Else
{
   SetDefaultPrinter(Printer1)
}

GetDefaultPrinter()
{
   nSize := VarSetCapacity(gPrinter, 256)
   DllCall(A_WinDir . "\system\winspool.drv\GetDefaultPrinterA", "str", gPrinter, "UintP", nSize)
   Return gPrinter
}
      
SetDefaultPrinter(sPrinter)
{
   DllCall(A_WinDir . "\system\winspool.drv\SetDefaultPrinterA", "str", sPrinter)
   TrayTip, AHK » Drucker und Faxgeräte, %sPrinter% wurde als Standard definiert., 10, 17
   ; the English translation would be:
   ; AHK » Printers and Faxes, %sPrinter% set as default printer.
   Sleep, 3000
   TrayTip
}
return


Note that the tray tip causes a delay of 3 seconds before another switch can be triggered.

Update 2008-02-09: on Vista-based machines, please replace the two "\system\" sections by "\System32\". Enjoy!

I hope this comes in handy to somebody as it did for me. Very Happy
Christian Sentis
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Last edited by controlfreak on Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:31 am; edited 3 times in total
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Justineo14



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why don't you make a pop up menu??
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:48 pm    Post subject: Doesnt work.. Reply with quote
Thanx for the script, the idea sounds very usefull. But it doesnt work on my windows version (XP). It shows the message and all seems well, but my printer doesnt get changed. I tried a few different name styles for my printers, but all dont work.

Could it be that my version of winspool.drv doesnt support printer change?

Any idea?

Thanx!
Randy
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randy@ahk
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:56 pm    Post subject: Apologies,.. found the answer.. Reply with quote
Embarassed

I found the answer in the post you mentioned at the top, I overlooked that one. Sorry..

In my case it missed a network adress: "/a100/".

Again, great idea... for me it's very usefull! Very Happy

Greets,
Randy
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Apologies,.. found the answer.. Reply with quote
randy@ahk wrote:
Again, great idea... for me it's very usefull! Very Happy


Randy,

Thank you for your appreciated feedback! Always nice to hear Smile

Christian
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