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How to print FoxPro form -- II

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Call this code from a method or event of FoxPro form to print image of the form on your default printer. Window handle of the form is obtained through GetFocus function. That is why this form has to be active, possessing the keyboard focus.

This code sample is based on Enhanced Metafile API functions. In a similar example How to print a FoxPro form a "bitmap" approach is used.

Enhanced metfaile functions make this code sample comparatively short and easy to understand.

See also:

How to print FoxPro form (GDI)

GDI+: sending image of FoxPro form to printer

Storing screen shot of a form to a BMP file

Storing clipboard contents to a BMP file

Using the LoadImage() to display a BMP file on the main VFP window

How to print a BMP file


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Created: 2003-05-26 09:44:05
Modified: 2011-12-10 09:20:22
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Listed functions:

BitBlt
CloseEnhMetaFile
CreateEnhMetaFile
DeleteDC
DeleteEnhMetaFile
EndDoc
EndPage
GetDeviceCaps
GetFocus
GetWindowDC
GetWindowRect
PlayEnhMetaFile
PrintDlg
ReleaseDC
StartDoc
StartPage

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#kwd: sln_printform.

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screen shot of a form

storing screen shot of a form

clipboard contents to a bmp file

contents to a bmp file

storing clipboard contents to a bmp file

enhanced metafile

bmp file on the main vfp window

display a bmp file on the main

form to a bmp file

shot of a form to a bmp

print a bmp file

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	Willson \| 2007-08-23 14:52:42


	I have a question about this, * scaling factor values from screen to printer xScale = GetDeviceCaps(hPrnDC, HORZRES)/(GetDeviceCaps(hPrnDC, HORZSIZE) * 100) yScale = GetDeviceCaps(hPrnDC, VERTRES)/(GetDeviceCaps(hPrnDC, VERTSIZE) * 100) rcMeta = num2dword(0) + num2dword(0) + num2dword(nWidthxScale) + num2dword(nHeightyScale) The code following the comment, "scaling factor values from screen to printer" seems to only reference hPrnDC in each of the calls to GetDeviceCaps() -- no reference to a screen DC -- whereas in example #158, there is an identical comment which is followed by different code: * scaling factor values from screen to printer xScale = GetDeviceCaps(hPrnDC, LOGPIXELSX)/GetDeviceCaps(hFormDC, LOGPIXELSX) yScale = GetDeviceCaps(hPrnDC, LOGPIXELSY)/GetDeviceCaps(hFormDC, LOGPIXELSY) Please advise? Thanks.




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