how can i print directly to the printer

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• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  June 2004 edited 6:00PM

  hi
  instead of calling showreport,
  call preparereport then call printpreparedreportdlg for print dialog or
  printpreparedreport('',1,true,frall)
  param1 str '1,3' or '5..9' or '' for all
  param2 int number of copies
  param3 boolean collate
  param4 fr constant.
  regards
• c.wille

  June 2004 edited 6:00PM

  many thanks for your answer!
  
  best regards
  
  C.Wille
  
  
• nele

  July 2004 edited 6:00PM

  I have similar problem.
  I need to print on two different printers on same PC without prompting user to select printer. How I can, from code, select printer where to print???
  
  
  Sorry for my bad english:(
  
  Best regards,
  nele
• guzial Poland

  July 2004 edited 6:00PM

  so you can do something like that:
  (of course it is not in FastReport but in Delphi - you can do it in BC++ too)
  
  if your FreeReport object name is frReport1
  
  frReport1.ChangePrinter(aOldIndex, aNewIndex,);
  frReport1.PrintPreparedReport('',PrintDialog1.Copies, PrintDialog1.Collate, frAll);
  
  where method ChangePrinter has two parameters
  1st - index of old printer
  2nd - new index
  
  PrintPreparedReport that method print report without dialog with user; if you use that method you have to give 4 parameters (PageNumbers: string; Copies: Integer; Collate: Boolean; PrintPages: TfrPrintPages)
  
  if you want to find out how much indexes of printers are availible you can use object of TPtinter (you have to add Printers to section "uses")
  than object of TPrinter for example Printer has method Printers
  so from 0 to printer.Printers.Count-1 it's range of indexes' availible in your computer
  
  if something is not clear you can write me guzial@wp.pl
  
  regards sorry for my english