function OpenPrinter(pPrinterName: PChar; var phPrinter: THandle; pDefault: PPrinterDefaults): BOOL; stdcall; external 'winspool.drv' name 'OpenPrinterA';
Will work. Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Hans Mårtensson > Sent: 05 February 2003 14:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Linking to Windows > > > At 19:10 04-02-2003 -0500, you wrote: > > > >You can get the SDK help files from Borland: > > > >ftp://ftp.borland.com/pub/delphi/techpubs/delphi3/d3ms.zip > > > >Be warned, this is a 15M download. > > > >Rolf Grunsky > > Thank you for the link, but I have allready got these help > files allthough in an older version, and they don't include > the information of DLL names and indices. > > My problem is that I want to use some win32 functions that > are not included in the FreePascal Windows unit, e. g. > OpenPrinter or SetPrinter. According to the FreePascal > Programmers' manual (ch. 4.1) the easyist way to do this is > declaring an external procedure. But then you have to know > the name of the DLL and the index where the function resides. > The Borland help files have all the information of the win32 > functions except in which DLLs they resides. > > Hans M. > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/f> pc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
