Reading a contract from the other side: Simulating a drop

re: Reading a contract from the other side: Simulating a drop

GregM — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:02:25 GMT

Rune, I just meant using the printto verb instead of the print verb in ShellExecute.

stuffing the printer

Rune — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:33:37 GMT

Thanks Greg! IFileViewer::PrintTo looks promising, but the description of the IFileViewer interface gives me pause. I'll just have to give it a try I guess.

re: Reading a contract from the other side: Simulating a drop

GregM — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:41:08 GMT

Rune, have you looked at PrintTo?

dropping stuff on the printer

Rune — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:41:48 GMT

So... Is this the preferred way of printing an arbitrary file to a specific printer?

I need to target a specific printer and I can't render the documents myself. ShellExecute("print", ...) only targets the default printer, but I have a specific printer in mind.

Simulating a file drop provides me with a workaround, but I can't help thinking that there surely must be an easier way. How does the shell trick the document's application to print to a specific printer?

re: Reading a contract from the other side: Simulating a drop

Christian — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:17 GMT

Thank you!

I often start a drag&drop operation in IE with e.g. a link by acciedent and don't want to navigate to that page.

I didn't know that I could press ESC! That's a great tip!

(I always tried to drag it to an area that does no harm, like the tray^H^H^H^Hnotification area or let's say "the clock" ;-) )

re: Reading a contract from the other side: Simulating a drop

Matt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:59:56 GMT

Oops... looks like it's explained here:

"The reason why the taskbar doesn't do this is that there is no such function GetDropTargetFromWindow function."

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/24/269237.aspx

I imagine the reason you can't is because applications should just start the drag and let the user drop it in the right spot. It's drag and drop, not some form of DDE! :)

re: Reading a contract from the other side: Simulating a drop

Matt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:56:22 GMT

It's been a really long time since I played with this stuff, but isn't there a pointer to a window's drop target stuffed into one of its properties?

I seem to remember having to hack around this to allow VB6 to support richer drag and drops.

I'm really rusty on my Win32, but was there a way to get a marshalled pointer to that drop target? Curious for old times sake.

re: Reading a contract from the other side: Simulating a drop

AsmGuru62 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:04:34 GMT

...uhm... the Leave called in both cases?!.. I think it is a typo. The code is correct though.

[Fixed, thanks. -Raymond]